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" ... beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty should... "
The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. - Page 251
by Edmund Burke - 1803
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

1764 - 236 pages
...fmall ; beauty mould be fmoothed and poliflied ; the great, rugged and negligent ; beauty Should fhuh the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the...cafes, loves the right line, and when it deviates, deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviadon : beauty fhould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...comparatively fmall; beauty mould be fmooth, and polifhed; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty mould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the great in many cafes cafes loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation; beauty mould not...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1767 - 368 pages
...comparatively fmall ; beauty fhould be fmooth and polifhed; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the great in many 3 cafes cafes loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation ; beauty...
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...comparatively fmall : beauty mould be fmooth and polimed; the great, rugged and negligent : beauty mould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the...when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation : tion : beauty mould not be obfcure ; tht great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty fhould be light...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...fmall : beauty lhould be fmooth and polifhed ; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the...and delicate ; the great ought to be folid, and even niaffive. They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...comparatively fmall: beauty mould be fmooth and polifhed; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the...deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation: beauty mould not be obfcure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty fhould be light and delicate; the...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...fmall : beauty fhould be fmooth .and polifhed ; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the great, in many cafrs, loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation: beauty fhould...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...fmall : beauty fliould be fmooth and polimed ; the great, rugged and negligent : beauty ihould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly : the...deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty ihould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty fliould be light and delicate...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...fmall : beauty mould be fmooth and polifhed ; the great, rugged and negligent ; beauty fhduid lliun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the...deviates^ it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty mould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty fhould be" light and delicate...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 27

1806 - 740 pages
...and polifhed ; the great, rugged and negligent ; beauty fhould fhun the right hue, yet deviates trom it infenfibly ; the great, in many cafes, loves the...obfcure, the great ought to be dark and gloomy ; beauty fliould be light and delicate, the great ought to be folid and even maflive." All thefe diverfhies,...
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