Hidden fields
Libros Libros
" All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature,... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Página 184
por Edmund Burke - 1811
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

A Handful of Thistles: Collected Papers in Moral Conviction

Lewis A. Coser - 1988 - 340 páginas
...rudely torn off. The superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of moral imagination which [are] necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd and antiquated fashion: Burke was rebutted in his turn by Thomas Paine, who wrote in Common Sense that "government. like dress,...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Culture and Criticism in Henry James

Dietmar Schloss - 1992 - 158 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.19 According to Burke, life in feudal times was embedded in a cultural and moral order. Different...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft

Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft

Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 páginas
...conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratines, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Evolution et révolution(s) dans la Grande-Bretagne du XVIIIe siècle

Paul-Gabriel Boucé - 1993 - 212 páginas
...culture : But now all is to be changed .... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. AU the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature . . . are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and anûquated fashion. Burke's Reflections on the...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 páginas
...ideal spectator would reclothe the naked body and soften the horror of the scene. He would provide "All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our estimation" (171). Burke's conservative response to the Revolution argues a restrained reclothing of...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 páginas
...deccm drapery oflifc is to he rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrohe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and...to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature ... are to he exploded as a ridicnlous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.1 Refleetions on the Revolution...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Manner of Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club

Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 páginas
...represented it long ago in the Tale: "All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as mercenary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to a dignity in our own...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

A Quest for Home: Reading Robert Southey

Christopher J. P. Smith - 1997 - 394 páginas
...and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (B p. 171) But Southey has, like Paine, an eye for both the plumage and the dying bird, and moreover,...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro

Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of ...

Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 páginas
...how this "age of Chivalry" is displaced: All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe...exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (93-94) Instead of the mind working behind the body to propel it into virtuous actions, which is the...
Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro




  1. Mi biblioteca
  2. Ayuda
  3. Búsqueda avanzada de libros
  4. Descargar EPUB
  5. Descargar PDF