 IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects ; but...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 100by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it offering to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1776 - 368 pages
...difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. . • IT is one thing to make an idea clear* and another to make it affecting to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, .1 prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. TT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent a. very clear idea of thofe objects; but then (allowing for the effedl: of imitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. TT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...impreffion, however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious author has well obferyed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be flrongly affected, and, in fact, often is fo, by objects of which we have... | |
 | 1796 - 784 pages
...impreflion, however, may be great ; tor, as an ingenious author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affeded, and, in fa ft, often is fo, by objeûs of which we have... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects j but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects £ butthen (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITt WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to...or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear ide* of those objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is something) my picture... | |
 | Great Britain - 1819 - 236 pages
...features!! As YOU LIKE IT. April 1, 1816. MR. Burke very justly observes, that it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. Our Noble Orator seems so fully aware of this fact, that throughout all his most finished discourses,... | |
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