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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... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ... - Page 74
by Edmund Burke - 1889
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The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 554 pages
...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...capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because 1 am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure....
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Jefferson's Garden

H. Peter Loewer - 2004 - 280 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." Jefferson himself also wrote several books, including The Garden and Farm Books, described by The Oxford...
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The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains

Martin Edward Thomas - 2004 - 350 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. Among the numerous examples that constitute the bulk of Burke's treatise is the case of a tower or...
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Gassen und Landschaften: Heimito von Doderers "Dämonen" vom Zentrum und vom ...

Gerald Sommer - 2004 - 536 pages
...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...the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.52 Burke beschreibt das Erstaunen (astonishment), verbunden „with some degree of horror",53...
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Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin-de-siècle

Andrew Smith - 2004 - 202 pages
...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...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime' (emphasis Burke's).4 De Quincey attempts to resolve this through a Kantian faith in the presence of...
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The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought

Jesse Goldhammer - 2005 - 386 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." Published more than twenty years before the French Revolution. Burkes meditation on sublimity was inspired...
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Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

Caroline Case - 2005 - 260 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. (Burke 1757: 216) Qualities of the sublime: astonishment, terror, fear, obscurity, night, power, pain,...
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Raimer Jochims: FarbFormBeziehungen: anschauliche Bedingungen seiner ...

Anette Naumann - 2005 - 642 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. Alles, was auf irgendeine Weise geeignet ist, die Ideen von Schmerz und Gefahr zu erregen, das heißt...
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Entre empire et nation: les représentations de la ville de Québec et de ses ...

Alain Parent - 2005 - 300 pages
...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...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling (cité dans ibid. : 628). D'autres penseurs contemporains attestent de la réciprocité du sublime...
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Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century

John B. Bender, Michael Marrinan - 2005 - 312 pages
...is f1tted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.1' Burke's sublime was based...
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