 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...height is less grand than depth ; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime, than an inclined plane ; and the effects... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...the subtler forms of thought. "A perpendicular," says Burke, "has more force, in forming the sublime, than an inclined plane ; and the effects of a rugged and broken surface seem stronger than where it is smooth and polished." Hence, a bold, bluff rock rising to an... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that...more force in forming the fublime, than an inclined plain ; and the effe&s of a rugged and broken furface feem ftronger than where it is fmooth and polifhed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...height is tefs grand than depth ; and that we are more {truck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height; but of that...more force in forming the fublime, than an inclined plain; and the effects of a rugged and broken farface feern ftronger than where it is fmooth and polimed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are mofe ftruclc at looking down from a precipke, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am hot very pofitive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the fublime, than an inclined plain ;... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an objecl: of equal height : but of that I am not very pofitive....more force in forming the fublime, than an inclined plain ; and the effefts of a rugged and broken furface feem ftronger than where it is fmooth and poliQied.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipke, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that...and broken furface feem ftronger than. where it is fmootli and polimed. It would carry us buj: of Our way to enter in this place intd the €aufe of fhefe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...height is lefs grand than depth ; and that we are more ftruck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am not very pofitive. A perpendicular lias more force in forming the fublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects of a rugged and broken... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...height is less grand than depth ; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height ; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...height is less grand than depth ; and .that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than looking up at an object of equal height: but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime than an inclined plane ; and the effects... | |
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I am apt to imagine likewise, that height is less grand than depth; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice, than at looking up at an object of equal height, but of that I am not very positive. 
