 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...art. And I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...of any paintings, bad or good, that produce the fame effect. So that poetry, with all its obfcurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion...chiefly excites our paffions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the moft ftriking caufes affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar; and all men are as the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...of any paintings, bad or good, that produce the fame effect. So that poetry, with all its obfcurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion...nature, why the obfcure idea, when properly conveyed, fhould be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that caufes all our admiration,... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...of any paintings, bad or good, that produce the fame efleft. So that poetry, with all its obfcurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion over the paflions than the other art. And I think there are reafons in nature, why the obfcure idea, when properly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...any paintings, bad or good, that produce the fame effect. So that, poetry, with ati its obfcurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion...obfcure idea, when properly conveyed, mould be more affecHng than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that caufes all our admiration, and chiefly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...any paintings, bad or good, that produce tire fame effect. So that poetry, with all its obfcurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion...the paffions than the other art. And I think there arcreafons in nature, why the obfcure idea, when properly conveyed, Ihould be more affecting than the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...art. And I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...any paintings, bad or good, that produce the same effect : SO that poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the other art. And I think there are reasons in nature why the obscure idea, when properly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...art. And I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Knowledge and acquaintance make the most... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...of any paintings, bad or good, that produce the same effect. So that poetry, with all its obscurity, heir talking soph isters, that a free, a generous, an inform tho passions, than the other art. And I think there are reasons in nature, why tho obscure idea, when... | |
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And I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. 
