 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 pàgines
...substance of the following passage, and indicate what you consider to be ita central idea: — Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1917 - 614 pàgines
...billow's roar, the earthquake shock, all derive their dread sublimity from Death. Examine this theory." "Whatever," says Burke, "is fitted in any sort to...analogous to terror, — is a source of the Sublime. Indeed, terror is, in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of... | |
 | 1926 - 528 pàgines
...the sublime in art. The most significant passage is the following: Whatever is fitted in any sense to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 pàgines
...COWPER PAGE 17, 1. 22. Sublime : Burke had fixed the meaning of the word for his generation. ' Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime. ... A level plain of a vast extent on land is certainly no mean idea ; the prospect of such a plain... | |
 | Rudolf Eisler, Karl Roretz - 1927 - 962 pàgines
...und Gefahr für uns zu erwecken vermag; es wirkt angenehm, wenn wir uns sicher fühlen. „Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible or disconversant about terrible objects ... is a source of the sublime" (Enquir. I, 7). Nach KANT gefällt... | |
 | Rudolf Eisler, Karl Roretz - 1927 - 934 pàgines
...für uns zu erwecken vermag; es wirkt angenehm, wenn wir uns sicher fühlen. „Whatever is fittea in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible or disconversant about terrible objects ... is a source of the sublime" (Enquir. I. 7). Nach KANT gefällt... | |
 | André Lalande - 1928 - 616 pàgines
...sublime and beautiful) introduisit ainsi cette idée : « Whatever is fltled in any sort to excile ideas of pain and danger, that is to say whatever...any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objccts, or opérâtes in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of thé sublime; that is, it is... | |
 | Geoff King, Tanya Krzywinska - 2002 - 242 pàgines
...reality. For eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke, the sublime finds its source in 'Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror' (Burke 1759: 58). And it results in 'the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling' (Ibid.).... | |
 | Martin Heusser, Gudrun Grabher - 2002 - 238 pàgines
...Edmund Burke's famous 1757 formulation of the sublime as, "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime" (36). Pittman's reference to God positions her squarely in the Romantic sublime that Roderick Nash... | |
 | Alvaro Felix Bolanos, Alvaro Félix Bolaños, Gustavo Verdesio, Gustavo Also Verdesio - 2002 - 312 pàgines
...Dufart, 1808), 1: 279; 20: 316-23,423-26. 54. Of the attraction of the sublime Burke writes: "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analagous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion... | |
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WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive... 
