 I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices,...  Lectures on rhetoric &c - Page 420by Hugh Blair - 1820Full view - About this book
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 pages
...prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desart, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature.' ' As to uncommonness or newness Addison adduces the following example: 'groves, fields, and meadows,... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - 394 pages
...uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high His love for the > J ar J > J grand and stupendous rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature." Like a true worshipper of Nature he can enjoy the His delight in the beauty arising from the very wildness... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...to refer to as the sublime; examples of great objects include 'a vast uncultivated Desart . . . high Rocks and Precipices, or a wide Expanse of Waters', where we are struck by a 'rude kind of Magnificence'. Such objects produce an effect of enlargement in the mind,... | |
 | Robert Gish - 1996 - 236 pages
...open champaign country [of flat fields], a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at anything that is too big for its... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...prospects of an open champian country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...noticeable tendency in his argument to withdraw. The response of the imagination to natural "greatness" ("where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty...with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in ... stupendous works of nature") is described in terms of enthusiasm and ecstasy: "We are flung into... | |
 | Peter Fjågesund, Ruth A. Symes - 2003 - 420 pages
...prospects of an open champian country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature tquoted in Ashfield and de Bolla 1998. 62). And in an article only a week later, he gives a description... | |
 | Philip Shaw - 2006 - 192 pages
...Prospects of an open Champian Country, a vast uncultivated Desart, of huge Heaps of Mountains, high Rocks and Precipices, or a wide Expanse of Waters,...appears in many of these stupendous Works of Nature. Our Imagination loves to be filled with an Object, or to graspe at any thing that is too big for its... | |
 | Ernest Mathijs - 2006 - 368 pages
...prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. (Cited in Ashfield & De Bella 1996: 62) This notion of greatness contains many of the elements connected... | |
 | Jan Godderis - 2006 - 468 pages
...prospects ofan open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desart, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. ..." '9. Men zal hier overigens ook rekening houden met de emoties die door dit gedicht bij zijn lezers... | |
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