 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment ; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.1 In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...want a, jeweller ; " and bowed him out of the room. t Burke " On the Sublime and Beautiful," p. 33. is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror." Before attempting to controvert this opinion, it is only fair to say that he admits, that while astonishment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment ; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in •which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of liorrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. This is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree : the inferior effects are admiration, reverence,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...Beautiful affirms, that "the passion raised by the sublime is astonishment, and that astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror," surely a more sublime spectacle was never presented to mortal eyes, than that which was on this occasion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment : and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...: ul,Kme in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is rease of their wealth ; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot emerrain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment : and astonishment is venture to )R* horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
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THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment : and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. 
