| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...last degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFEBENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...defcription all is dark, uncertain, confufed, terrible, and fublime to the laft degree. SECT. IV. J Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY...thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it offering to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1767 - 368 pages
...had on. In this defcription all is dark, uncertain, confufed, terrible, and fublime to the laft jree. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and...thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it offering to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1776 - 368 pages
...this dcfcription all is dark, uncertain, confufed, terrible, and fublime to the laft degree. • . i SECT. IV. . , Of the difference between CLEARNESS...drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, .1 prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...on. In this defcription all is dark, uncertain, confufed, terrible, and fublime to the laft degree. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...indiftinct, the imprcfliorf; however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious Author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make iC affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affected, and, in fact, often... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. TT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my pi&ure can at moft affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. TT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a. very clear idea of thofe objects; but then (allowing for the effedl: of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...indiftindt, the impreffion, however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious author has well obferyed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be flrongly affected, and, in fact, often is fo, by objects of which we have... | |
| 1796 - 784 pages
...indiftinft, the impreflion, however, may be great ; tor, as an ingenious author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affeded, and, in fa ft, often is fo, by objeûs of which we have... | |
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