 Not one gla'nce of compassion, not one commiserating reflection that I can find throughout his book, has he bestowed on those who lingered out the most wretched of lives, a life without hope in the most miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Página 45editado por - 1846Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Saree Makdisi - 2007 - 422 páginas
...Paine's attack on Burke in Rights ofMan.™ In arguing that Burke "is not affected by the reality of the distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his 224 imagination," that Burke "pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird," Paine is able to reconfigure... | |
 | Paul Keen - 2004 - 380 páginas
...wretched of lives, a life without hope, in the most miserable of prisons.2 It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into... | |
 | Catherine Spooner - 2004 - 236 páginas
...Medici. Ambrosio is, in effect, the Burkean spectator as castigated by Paine, distracted by plumage and 'not affected by the reality of distress touching...heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination'.58 Lewis spells out the prurient voyeurism of this kind of spectatorship, which both Burke... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - 256 páginas
...when he says in the Rights of Man that Burke is "not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination" and concludes that Burke "pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird."" Wollstonecraft's first... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Matthew S. Buckley - 2006 - 222 páginas
...desire for such effacement clearly informed Paine's critique of the Reflections. Burke, Paine argues, "is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into... | |
 | Jane Hodson - 2007 - 244 páginas
...Paine, Rights of Man, p. 37. 1 1 0 Paine, Rights of Man, p. 49. 1 1 1 Paine, Rights of Man, p. 45. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to...touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it in striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 páginas
...out the most wretched of lives, a life without hope in the most miserable of prisons. . . . [Burke] is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 páginas
...paper." The whole passage is held by some to be a piece of false sentiment. Paine for example writes, " He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird,. ..His hero or heroine must be a tragedy victim, expiring in show; and not the real prisoner of misery,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1876 - 986 páginas
..."Nature," says Paine, "has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. Ho is not affected by the realities of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." A writer thus known to the American people not only as the champion of their individual rights, but... | |
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