I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.


A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (ed. 1767)

Edmund Burke Quotes

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my...

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my...

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my...

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my...