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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... "
Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal - Page 159
by George Herbert - 1863
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. 'WHATEVEE is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or i is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner ' analogous to terror, is a source...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 pages
...Pafllons of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime ; that is, excites theftrongeft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' But furely this is falfe...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 332 pages
...Paffions of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime; that is, excites the ftrongcft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' .But furely this is falfe...
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...than a possible effect. "Whatever," says Burke, "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...
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 1

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 640 pages
...Master* of the Sublime ha* well observed, *' 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 objcfts, or opsrates in a manner analagous to terror, is a source of The Sublime ; that is, it is productive...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 1

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...of his hypotheses incomplete. ' Whatever (says he) is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the...
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An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste

Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pages
...sublime ; which is first stated to proceed/rote whatever is fated in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger ; that is to say, Whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror*. But, nevertheless,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 362 pages
...powerful of all the passions. OF THE SUBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, er is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...noble philosophy : — " Whatever ia fitted," says Burke, "in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger— that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or ia conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the...
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The Hermes; a literary, moral and scientific journal

206 pages
...thereto ; and we shall call that sublime which " 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 which operates in a manner analogous to terror, the Sublime...
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