...after one commiserating glance, he proceeds with his narrative. While he insists that Burke's "hero or heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of mystery, sinking into death in the silence of a dungeon" (260), he himself exploits Enlightenment and...

...after one commiserating glance, he proceeds with his narrative. While he insists that Burke's "hero or heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of mystery, sinking into death in the silence of the dungeon" (CW, 1:260), he himself exploits Enlightenment...

...joy that the Bastille had been pulled down: 'He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. . . . His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon.' And so, now that flowers heaped outside Kensington...

...the most miserable of prisons"; and with a sharp critique of Burke 's aesthetic ideology, he adds, "His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of mystery, sinking into death in the silence of the dungeon." Smith, with equivocal sympathy for emigrant...

...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy -victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence...

..."Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself," Paine writes of Burke, "he degenerates into a composition of art, and the...expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon."49 Here Paine prepares the way for the climactic moment...

...employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. . . . He degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. . . . The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of Nature. . . . The example [of American...

...plumage but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath parloined him from himself. he degenerates into a composition of art, and the gennine soal of nature forsakes him. Ris hero or heroine nmst he a tragedy,victim expiring in show....

...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon. Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments...

...resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. ... His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon.'-'4 The image recurs in Mary \\bllstonecraft 's Vindication...