 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1802 - 280 pàgines
...extasy, just as .the chords are touched, like the aeolian harp agitated by the changing wind'. But how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in such an imperfect state of «xistencej and how difficult to eradicate them when an affection for mankind, a passion for an individual,... | |
 | Marlene Kadar - 1992 - 250 pàgines
...what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a quick perception of the beautiful and sublime, ... how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in such an imperfect state of existence' (58). And again: 'Why has nature so many charms for me - calling forth and cherishing refined sentiments,... | |
 | Karen Lawrence - 1994 - 296 pàgines
...to extasy, just as the chords are touched, like the aeolian harp agitated by the changing wind. But how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in...love which embraces all that is great and beautiful. When a warm heart has received strong impressions, they are not to be effaced. Emotions become sentiments;... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 pàgines
...to extasy, just as the chords are touched, like the aeolian harp agitated by the changing wind. But how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in...love which embraces all that is great and beautiful. When a warm heart has received strong impressions, they are not to be effaced. Emotions become sentiments;... | |
 | Sylvia Bowerbank - 2004 - 324 pàgines
...are inscribed within a system that naturalizes oppression: "But how dangerous it is to foster such sentiments in such an imperfect state of existence;...love which embraces all that is great and beautiful" (72). According to Wollstonecraft, such sympathies with existing "nature" are deceptive, involuntary... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 456 pàgines
...to extasy, just as the chords are touched, like the aeolian harp agitated by the changing wind. But how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in...love which embraces all that is great and beautiful. (LSND,p. 271) Such an apparently confident statement of the educative and morally sustaining effect... | |
 | 466 pàgines
...to ecstasy, just as the chords are touched, like the AEolian harp agitated by the changing wind. But how dangerous is it to foster these sentiments in...love which embraces all that is great and beautiful! When a warm heart has received strong impressions, they are not to be effaced. Emotions become sentiments,... | |
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... beautiful and sublime, when it is exercised in observing animated nature, when every beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched, like... 