 | David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 468 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in...secure, their aspect is all the more attractive for its tearfulness; and we readily call these objects sublime, because they raise the forces of the soul above... | |
 | Paul Guyer - Philosophy - 1992 - 500 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in...fearfulness; and we readily call these objects sublime, because they raise the forces of the soul above the heights of vulgar commonplace, and discover within... | |
 | Iain Boyd Whyte, Colin Baxter - Architecture - 1997 - 66 pages
...like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might. But provided our position is secure, their aspect is all the more attractive for its tearfulness; and we readily call these objects sublime, because they raise the forces of the soul above... | |
 | Charles W. Nuckolls - Social Science - 1998 - 329 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in...fearfulness; and we readily call these objects sublime, because they raise the forces of the soul above the heights of vulgar commonplace, and discover within... | |
 | Theodor W. Adorno - Music - 1999 - 250 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might. But . . . their aspect is all the more attractive for its fearfulness; and we readily call these objects... | |
 | Louis Roy - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 252 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might' (§ 28, 261; other examples are given at § 29, 270). In his Anthropology (1798; 2d ed. 1800), Kant... | |
 | Joanna Zylinska - Feminist theory - 2001 - 200 pages
...distance (ie a position from which one is not threatened by their potential destructive character), 'make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might'.1 1 The performances of St Aubin de Teran, Anderson and Orlan challenge the previously maintained... | |
 | Doris Sommer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 284 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in...fearfulness; and we readily call these objects sublime, because they raise the forces of the soul above the heights of vulgar commonplace, and discover within... | |
 | Stephen Rumph - Music - 2004 - 307 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might. Nevertheless, the sublime does not lead us to despair, but to a higher pleasure than beauty affords.... | |
 | Ben Mark Rogers - Philosophy - 2004 - 164 pages
...boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment in comparison with their might.13 Richard Norman Kant has an unconvincing psychological account of why we value the sublime.... | |
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... volcanoes in all their violence of destruction, hurricanes leaving desolation in their track, the boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of trifling moment... 
