The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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96. oldal
... continued a proper time , the effect is indifference ; if it be abruptly broken off , there enfues an uneafy fenfe called dif- appointment ; if the object be so totally loft that there is no chance of enjoying it again , a paffion ...
... continued a proper time , the effect is indifference ; if it be abruptly broken off , there enfues an uneafy fenfe called dif- appointment ; if the object be so totally loft that there is no chance of enjoying it again , a paffion ...
123. oldal
... CONTINUED . THERE are two verfes in Horace's Art of Poetry that seem to contradict this opinion , for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The ver- fes are , Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aures , Quam ...
... CONTINUED . THERE are two verfes in Horace's Art of Poetry that seem to contradict this opinion , for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The ver- fes are , Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aures , Quam ...
138. oldal
... continued fo long and in fuch a direc- tion , as by their frequent impulses on the fense to impress the imagination with an idea of their progress beyond their actual limits . 2. Uniformity ; because if the figures of the parts fhould ...
... continued fo long and in fuch a direc- tion , as by their frequent impulses on the fense to impress the imagination with an idea of their progress beyond their actual limits . 2. Uniformity ; because if the figures of the parts fhould ...
212. oldal
... continued agitation , it pre- fents the mind with a grand or fublime conception . But instead of viewing a rank of uniform pillars ; let us fuppofe , that they fucceed each other , a round and a square one al- ternately . In this cafe ...
... continued agitation , it pre- fents the mind with a grand or fublime conception . But instead of viewing a rank of uniform pillars ; let us fuppofe , that they fucceed each other , a round and a square one al- ternately . In this cafe ...
227. oldal
... continued in the fame manner , nothing very fuddenly varied , can be beautiful ; because both are opposite to that agreeable relaxation which is the characteristic effect of beauty . It is thus in all the fenfes . A motion in a right ...
... continued in the fame manner , nothing very fuddenly varied , can be beautiful ; because both are opposite to that agreeable relaxation which is the characteristic effect of beauty . It is thus in all the fenfes . A motion in a right ...
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574. oldal - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
122. oldal - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...
121. oldal - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
112. oldal - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
565. oldal - Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and most powerful...
570. oldal - ... and what repealing; what bullying, and what submitting; what doing, and undoing ; what straining, and what relaxing what assemblies dissolved for not obeying, and called again without obedience ; what troops sent out to quell resistance, and on meeting that resistance, recalled ; what shiftings, and changes, and jumblings of all kinds of men at home, which left no possibility of order, consistency, vigour, or even so much as a decent unity of colour in any one public measure.
567. oldal - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared ; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favourite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
71. oldal - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
125. oldal - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.