 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 542 pages
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 | Philip Cox - 1996 - 184 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bill Beckley - 2001 - 286 pages
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 | Bill Beckley - 2001 - 280 pages
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 | 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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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... 
