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" For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small: beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves... "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 282
1838
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to...delicate ; the great ought to be solid and even massive. pain and terror, which are but different degrees of an unnatural tension of the nerves, whatever produces...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...should bo smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun tho right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many...great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty should bo light and delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a...
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Principles of Imitative Art: Four Lectures Delivered Before the Oxford Art ...

George Butler - 1852 - 260 pages
...should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many...delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. * * * * If the qualities of the sublime and beautiful are sometimes found united, does this prove that...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent : beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great in many...great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty should *e light and delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are indeed ideas of a very...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to...delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. The author comes next to consider in what manner the sublime and beautiful are produced. As the sublime...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Biographies. Reviews. Animated Nature. Cock ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to...should be light and delicate ; the great ought to bo solid, and even massive. The author comes next to consider in what manner the sublime and beautiful...
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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1856 - 238 pages
...should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent : beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many...massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a very different Why is the examination of the similar pleasures of other senses the best way to establish a clear and...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to...delicate ; the great ought to be solid and even massive. The author comes next to consider in what manner the stfblimc and beautiful arc produced. As the sublime...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...should bo smooth and polished ; the great, nigged and negligent ; beauty should shun the right ine, ǞT /: v m 8K b ~P˯ w A a҃ 5 WHEN I say, I intend to enquire into the efficient cause of sublimity and beauty, I would not be understood...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 556 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy. Beauty should bo light and delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. The author comes next to consider...
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