...had already recognized: 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...Astonishment at such unbounded Views, and feel a delightful Stilness and Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them. The Mind of Man naturally hates every...

...filled with an object, or to grasp at anything that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates anything that looks like a restraint upon it" (#412). Release, repletion,...

...the eighteenth century: 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...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them." And here is Kant's, at the end of the century: "The beautiful in nature is a question of the form of...

...mountains, deserts, and volcanoes can be invoked to serve as images of moral grandeur and inner freedom: "We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them" (Addison, Spectator No. 412, June 23, 1712). The mind can be transported ("flung into a pleasing astonishment")...

...42"Our Imagination loves to be filled with an Object," Addison had written, "or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its Capacity. We are flung into...Astonishment at such unbounded Views, and feel a delightful Stilness and Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them" (Spectator, no. 412, Monday, June 13,...

...stupendous works of nature. 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...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 is apt to fancy itself...

...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...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. 35 Addison's sense of "greatness," Burke's sense of the "sublime and the beautiful," "the images of...

...bestknown text on the matter: -Our imagination loves to be filled by an object, or to grasp at anything that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.- 21 ln the mid-eighteenth century, Edmund Burke pointed to such qualities as infinity, vastness, power,...

...greatness he says that "Our Imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to graspe at any thing that is too big for its Capacity. We are flung into...Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them." (540) In his third essay, Addison goes on to speculate that this association was instilled in us by...

...which appears in ... stupendous works of nature") is described in terms of enthusiasm and ecstasy: "We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them" (Spectator, 412). We seem hopelessly remote from such excitements, however, when imaginative pleasures...