...on the one hand and reason on the other: The mind is so entirely filled with its [great or sublime] object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force (Burke 1958 [1757]: 57). emotions) remain in play. This divorcing of reason from imagination becomes...

...difference between observer and observed. Burke's definition of the sublime as a "great power" in which "the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it" (53), undercuts those distinctions between spectator and event upon which his theory also relies. This...

...Sublime objects or actions are beyond question because, as Burke observes, they cause 'astonishment'. 'In this case the mind is so entirely filled with...by consequence reason on that object which employs it.'34 Allied to astonishment is 'terror' and 'obscurity''. 32. See for example Jackson, JB niscm>frin(i...

...Revolution, Edmund Burke. Discussing the passion caused by experiencing the sublime in nature, Burke writes: "In this case, the mind is so entirely filled with...object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequences reason on that object which employs it" (57). Malthus evokes this unfathomable emotion...

...sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. ... In this case, the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it 1 J. Mamwanng, Memotrsof the Life oftht Late George Fredersck Handel (London, 1760), 168, cited in...

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...consequence reason on that object which employs it. According to Burke, this epilepsy is the consequence of the stress on the perceptual nerves of things...

...that are peculiarly horrifying or astonishing, overwhelm the effort of apprehension and narration: "The mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it" (Burke 1987, 57). 6 The point is rather that the Dusky Bay encounter, unlike not only those at Tahiti...

...on aesthetics in Europe and North America in the later part of the century. Reason is overpowered: the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force/' 73 Edgar Degas Landscape, c. 1892 The first-century AD treatise On the Sublime, attributed to Longinus,...

...that are peculiarly horrifying or astonishing, overwhelm the effort of apprehension and narration: 'The mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...by consequence reason on that object which employs it."i7 The point is rather that the Dusky Bay encounter, unlike not only those at Tahiti and in other...

...I:408.) Such sublime self-abnegation has empiricist bearings: as in Burke, who describes 'the mind ... so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot...by consequence reason on that object which employs it'.11 Coleridge doesn't normally follow Burke in associating sublimity with pain or fear;11 but in...