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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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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 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." Among the various circumstances that may be mentioned as producing a feeling of the sublime, are vastness,...
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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 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." Among the various circumstances that may be mentioned as producing a feeling of the sublime, are vastness,...
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The Philosophy of the Beautiful: Outlines of the history of aesthetics

William Angus Knight - 1891 - 320 pages
...should be smooth and polished — the great rugged and negligent : beauty should show the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly — the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates makes a strong deviation : beauty should not be obscure — the great ought to be dark and gloomy :...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...should be smooth and polished ; th« great, rugged and negligent : beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great in many...the right line, and when it deviates it often makes s strong deviation : beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty...
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Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Peter le Huray, James Day - 1988 - 420 pages
...are 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.' There is, in short, a good deal of the wild and unfathomable about Burke's sublime, and it was with...
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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Alex Potts - 2000 - 310 pages
...that 'beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great [ie the sublime] in many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation.' 17 This is not so say that the figure of Venus was entirely unproblematic, for it raised questions...
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From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of ...

Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 442 pages
...ones comparatively small; beauty should be smooth and polished: the great, rugged and negligent ... beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be...be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, even massive. (311) It is easy to see why a mountainous landscape would fit into this tradition of...
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The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic ...

Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...comparatively small; beauty should be smooth, and polished; the great, rugged and negligent. . . . beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive" (113). Burke's hope was to draw attention to those occasions in which the human imagination seemed...
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From the Erotic to the Demonic : On Critical Musicology: On Critical Musicology

Derek B. Scott Chair of Music University of Salford - 2003 - 270 pages
...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...delicate; the great ought to be solid and even massive. 7 Though the beautiful and sublime may be found united, they are distinct qualities. Burke illustrates...
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Understanding 'The Prelude'

W J B Owen - 2007 - 349 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, (p. 124) Part IV of the Enquiry is a not very convincing attempt to account for the effects of the...
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