 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many cases, loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...what wo receive from her own information. deviates, it often makes a strong deviation beauty shotU und" Edmund Burke Thev are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many cases, loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...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,... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great, in many cases, loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...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,... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1891 - 320 pages
...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 solid, and even massive." The year after Burke's essay appeared (in 1757), David Hume issued his Four Dissertations, the last... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly. The Great, in many cases, loves the right line ; and when it deviates it often makes a strong deviation....delicate ; the Great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a very different nature : one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...it insensibly ; the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates it often makes s strong deviation : beauty should not be obscure ;...delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. ,They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being 'founded on pain, the other on pleasure;... | |
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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... 
