 | Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...is the moft genuine effect, and trueft left of the fublime. There are fcarce any things which K can can become the objects of our fenfes that are really,...they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame efrects as if they were really fo. We are deceived irr the like manner, if the parts of fome large... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1767 - 368 pages
...the moft genuine effect, and trueft teft of the fub* lime. There are fcarce any things which K can can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really...they produce the fame effects as if they were really (o. We arc deceived in the like manner, if the parts of fome large object are fo continued to any indefinite... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1776 - 368 pages
...is the moft genuine effect, and trueft teft of the fublime. There are fcarctf any things which K can can become the objects of our fenfes, that are really...parts of fome large object are fo continued to any idefinite number, that the imagination meets no check which may hinder its extending them at pleafure.... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...delightful horror, which is the moft genuine effect, and trueft teft of the fublime. There are fcarcc any things which can become the objects of our fenfes,...they feem to be infinite, and they produce the fame eflects as if they were really fo. We arc deceived in the like manner, if the parts of fome Ijirje... | |
 | John Penn - 1800 - 212 pages
...acquiesce in the present object of the sense;" as also, where the sublime is alone considered, that " the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so." In this manner the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite....being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | George Tappen - 1806 - 336 pages
...says, " Besides " vastness of extent, infinity is another source of " the sublime ; that is to say, the eye not being " able to perceive the bounds of many things, they " appear to be infinite, and they produce the same " effect as if they were really so. Succession,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their own nature infinite ....being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our ^nscs, that are really and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the '••Hinds of many things, they seem to be infinite, •mil they produce the same effects as if they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, h the manifest design of connecting the aflairs of...of England, by drawing us into an imitation of the seem to be infinite, and they prodece the same effects as if they were really so. We are deceived in... | |
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Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses that are really, and in their own nature... 
