 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 184 ページ
...powerful instruction, the sublimity, the* en* Inspiration may be justly culled divine enthusiasm — for inspiration is a real feeling of the divine presence; and enthusiasm a false one• Characteristics, vol. ip 53. This is what our author advances, when in behalf of enthusiasm he quotes... | |
 | 1873 - 852 ページ
...for, in truth, enthusiasm, as Shaftesbury defines it, is an ugly phenomenon. 'Inspiration,' he says, 'is a real feeling of the Divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one ' (¡'6. § 7 ), to which he adds significantly that the passions aroused are much alike in the two... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 382 ページ
...in truth, enthusiasm, as Shaftesbury defines it, is an ugly phenomenon. ' Inspiration,' he says, ' is a real feeling of the Divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one' (ib. § 7), to which he adds significantly that the passions aroused are much alike in the two cases.... | |
 | 1873 - 808 ページ
...for, in truth, enthusiasm, as Shat'tesbury defines it, is an ugly phenomenon. 'Inspiration,' he says, 'is a real feeling of the Divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one' (Л.§7), to which he adds significantly that the passions aroused are much alike in the two cases.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 494 ページ
...the change in whose signification is characteristic of many other changes. V Inspiration,' he says, 'is a real feeling of the Divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one ; ' 4 to which he adds, significantly, that the passions aroused in the two cases are much alike.X... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 364 ページ
...the language of enthusiasm . . . guard against what savours of poetry. ARISTOTLE, Rhet, pp. 222, 226. Inspiration is a real feeling of the divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one. ID., p. 40. True poetry . . . cannot well subsist . . . without a tincture of enthusiasm. 1756. J.... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1900 - 404 ページ
...enthusiastical atheists. Nor can divine inspiration, by its outward marks, be easily distinguished from it. For inspiration is a real feeling of the Divine Presence, and enthusiasm a false one. But the passion they raise is much alike. For when the mind is taken up in vision, and fixes its view... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1907 - 506 ページ
...for, in truth, enthusiasm, as Shaftesbury defines it, is an ugly phenomenon. " Inspiration," he says, "is a real feeling of the Divine presence, and enthusiasm a false one" (ib., § 7), to which he adds significantly that the passions aroused are much alike in the two cases.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 140 ページ
...extensive; . . . Nor can divine inspiration, by its outward marks, be easily distinguished from it. For inspiration is a real feeling of the Divine Presence, and enthusiasm a false one. But the passion they raise is much alike. Shaftesbury, Characteristics, Vol. I, p. 37. 1769: The melancholy... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 150 ページ
...extensive; . . . Nor can divine inspiration, by its outward marks, be easily distinguished from it. For inspiration is a real feeling of the Divine Presence, and enthusiasm a false one. But the passion they raise is much alike. Shaftesbury, Characteristics, Vol. I, p. 37. 1769: The melancholy... | |
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For inspiration is a real feeling of the Divine Presence and enthusiasm a false one. 
