 Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 103by Edmund Burke - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pages
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. 1 In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence \rgassn^on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that, far from... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - 1921 - 320 pages
...is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In that case the mind is so entirely filled with its object...consequence reason on that object which employs it. ... It anticipates our reasoning, and hurries us on by an irresistible force." That paragraph might... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
..."Astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...consequence reason on that object which employs it. ... It anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force." Of course we, who are... | |
 | David S. Katz, Jonathan Irvine Israel - 1990 - 314 pages
...with some degree of horror. In this case the 18 Linguet, Du pain et du bled (London, 1774), p. 76. mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it...by consequence reason on that object which employs it"20. The origins of Linguet's vision of the world as a realm of horror and violence are complex.... | |
 | David S. Katz, Jonathan Irvine Israel - 1990 - 314 pages
...with some degree of horror. In this case the 18 Linguet, Du pain et du bled (London, 1774), p. 76. mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it...by consequence reason on that object which employs it"20. The origins of Linguet's vision of the world as a realm of horror and violence are complex.... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 198 pages
...feelings of fear and pain produces the powerful passion of astonishment, in which the self is mastered: In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force. [57] The beautiful, however, contains all that the self masters. And the lines of the distinction become... | |
 | Robert D. Newman - 1993 - 196 pages
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other . . . Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates... | |
 | Robert D. Newman - 1993 - 200 pages
...this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other . . . Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates [italics mine] our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force.19 Bloom discusses Vice's... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1996 - 388 pages
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force." The Grand Canyon is a good example of such a natural object. William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pages
...its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror." The subject is frozen, paralyzed with fear: "The mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it" (57). The sublime, in Burke's telling, is violent, fierce; the encounter with it is at bottom the subject's... | |
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