 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...poetry or painting is such\ as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. So it is with most of the pieces which the painters call still-life.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...conjunction with it. When the object reprefented in poetry or painting is fuch as we could have no deflre of feeing in the reality, then I may be fure that...the pieces which the painters call ftill-life. In thete a cottage, a dunghill, the meaneft and moft ordinary utenfils of the kitchen, are capable of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...poetry or painting is fuch as we could have no defire of feeing in the reality, then I may be fiire that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the...is with moft of the pieces which the painters call ftilWife. In thefe a cottage, a dunghill, the meaneft and moft ordinary utenfils of the kitchen, are... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...conjunction with it. When ihe object reprefented in poetry or painting is fuch as we could have no defue of feeing in the reality, then I may be fure that...is with moft of the pieces which the painters call flill-life. In thefe a cottage, a dunghill, the meaneft and moft ordinary utenfils of the kitchen,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...the arts to imitation, or to our pleafure in thefkill of the imitator merely, and when to fympathy, or fome other caufe in conjunction with it. When the...cottage, a dunghill, the meaneft and moft ordinary utenfib of the kitchen, are capable of giving us pleafure. But when the object of the painting or poem... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...the arts to imitation, or td Our pleafurc in the fldll of the imitator merely, and when to fympathy, or fome other caufe in conjunction with it. When the...call ftilllife. In th'efe a cottage, a dunghill, the meafteft and moft ordinary utenfils of the kitchen, are capable of giving us pleafure. But when the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. So it is with most of the pieces which the painters call still-life.... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 460 pages
...poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power o'f imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. So it is with most of the pieces which the painters call still-life:... | |
 | sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 pages
...poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. So it is with most of the pieces which the painters call still-life:... | |
 | 1843 - 832 pages
...poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then we may he sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation." " We may," says our author, " be sure of the contrary ; for if the object be undesirable in itself,... | |
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When the object represented in poetry or painting is such as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality, then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. 
