...(1844-19001, German philosopher. Twilight of the Idols, "Expeditions of an Unlimely Man," aph. 28 (1889). 7 He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. THOMAS PAINE (1 737-1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. The Rights ofMjn, "Rights of...

...by his classical representation of Louis and Marie Antoinette affect him, in Paine's words, "not ... by the reality of distress touching his heart, but...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird" (51 ) . By Burke's reasoning, argues Paine, we would end up pitying Othello for his downfall, rather...

...wretched of lives, a life without hope, in the most miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature...is not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage,...

...some alternative "reality" of sympathetic exchange. Paine bitterly remarks in Rights of Man that Burke "is not affected by the reality of distress touching...heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination."17 The radical polemicist not only asserts here a stark disparity between reality and...

...who lingered out the most wretched of lives, a life without hope, in the most miserable of prisons. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy - victim expiring in shew, and not the real prisoner of misery,...

...one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Oscar Wilde, in conversation He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Thomas Paine, of Edmund Burke, in The Rights of Man Andre Malraux, the French writer and politician,...

...wretched of lives, a life without hope, in the most miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he has to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy...

...grand theatricality of the ancicn regime. atи\ by the character of Marie,Antoinette in particular: He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pit ¡es the plumage but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath...

...monarchy, and complex government, and is the basis of his picture of Burke: It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature...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...

...in The Rights of Man lay in the imputation that Burke had reduced ethics to mere aesthetic effects - 'He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance striking his imagination'6' - in fact, Burke's aesthetics of engagement questioned the very basis of...