 | Peter Kivy - 2001 - 316 Seiten
...object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece." And of the experience: "Our imagination loves to be filled with an object,...that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a 28 pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in... | |
 | Karsten Harries - 2001 - 400 Seiten
...century. A passage from Addison's SpectatorNr. 412 brings out some of the features of such experience. Our imagination loves to be filled with an Object,...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The Mind of Man naturally hates everything that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself... | |
 | Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 554 Seiten
...but with that rude kind of magnificence which 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 capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 Seiten
...„Dynamisch-Erhabene" bestimmte - denn die Dimension der Größe, des Riesigen und des Weiten187: Our Imagination loves to be filled with an object,...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and isapt to fancy itself... | |
 | Jan Godderis - 2006 - 468 Seiten
...(ofschoon vooral op de visuele kunsten toegepast) had omschreven, in bijzonder sterke mate benaderden: "... Our imagination loves to be filled with an object,...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of tin-in. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
 | Philip Shaw - 2006 - 192 Seiten
...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 Capacity. We...Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them, (from the Spectator 412, Monday, 23 June 1712; 1965: 540) Not content with describing the effects of... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2006 - 380 Seiten
...kind of Magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous Works of Nature?" According to Addison, "we are flung into a pleasing Astonishment at such...Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them." He says that "a beautiful Prospect delights the soul." Literary descriptions of landscapes, Addison... | |
 | Ginger Strand - 2008 - 354 Seiten
...Spectator, famously associated sublimity with the unfathomable: our imagination, he explained, loved "to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity." Too large and powerful to be tamed, too stupendous even to be perceived, sublime objects made us aware... | |
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Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension... 
