 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 286 pàgines
...ever hold dear. Nature is the nurfe of fentiment, — the true fdurcet of taffe ; — yet what mifery, as well as rapture, is produced by a quick perception of the beautiful and fublime, when it is exercifed in obferving animated nature, when every beauteous feeling and emotion... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1802 - 280 pàgines
...imagination will ever hold dear. Nature is the nurse of sentiment, — the true source of tafte;— yet what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as .the chords are touched,... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 pàgines
...following passage, for example, is unmistakable (albeit expressed in rather Burkean terms): "Nature is the nurse of sentiment, — the true source of taste;...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched,... | |
 | Marlene Kadar - 1992 - 250 pàgines
...feelings about nature are more ambivalent than her male Romantic counterparts'. She says: 'Nature is the nurse of sentiment, - the true source of taste; -...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... | |
 | Karen Lawrence - 1994 - 296 pàgines
...that she receives from the other. Nature is the nurse of sentiment,—the true source of taste;—yet what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched,... | |
 | Charlotte Dacre - 1997 - 308 pàgines
...evident and implicitly gendered, as they were in Bienville's Nymp/iomania, and in Dacre's Zofloya: "what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a quick perception of the beautiful and the sublime, when it is exercised in observing animated nature, when every beauteous feeling and emotion... | |
 | Linda S. Coleman - 1997 - 300 pàgines
...scenery. Wollstonecraft, however, manipulates this idea of the sublime when she states that fostering "a quick perception of the beautiful and sublime, when it is exercised in observing animated nature, ... is dangerous ... in such an imperfect state of existence" (VI: 58; 271). On Wollstonecraft's rendering,... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 pàgines
...soothing the heart, leave images in the memory which the imagination will ever hold dear. Nature is the nurse of sentiment, — the true source of taste;...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched,... | |
 | Diane Jacobs - 2001 - 336 pàgines
...Mary had the leisure to reflect. "Nature is the nurse of sentiment—the true source of taste;—yet what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched,... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 456 pàgines
...between those mere objects and a principle which gives promise of the divine scheme: Nature is the nurse of sentiment, - the true source of taste; -...beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to extasy, just as the chords are touched,... | |
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Nature is the nurse of sentiment, — the true source of taste; — yet what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a quick perception of the beautiful and sublime, when it is exercised in observing animated nature, when every beauteous feeling and... 