...considered as one piece"; the imagination likes to be free, and even to contemplate an image of its freedom: Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at anything that is too big for its capacity. . . . The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks...

...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,...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...

...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...

...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,...

...speaking of 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...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...

...contain" "enthusiasm" is used "to express whatever was sublime in human passions" (1:38). Addison writes: "Our Imagination loves to be filled with an Object,...grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity," such as "unbounded Views," which becomes one version of "an Image of Liberty." The remains of Shaftesbury's...

...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...

...These share a "rude kind of Magnificence" that produces "a pleasing Astonishment" in the beholder; we "feel a delightful Stillness and Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension of them," for the human mind "naturally hates" everything that suggests restraint, including a narrow view, whereas...

...largeness of a whole view considered as one entire piece." Such pleasures of the imagination, by which "we are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them," arise "originally from sights." Among the examples of such grandeur he mentions "a troubled ocean,...

...anything that is too hig for irs capacity. We arc flung mio a pleasing astonishment ai such unlsounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hares even- thing that looks like a restraint upon it. and is ape to fancy irsclt...