 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 páginas
...itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and^rth-Ncertain modifications, they may be, and they are, d*ngP\tfuJ/ as we every day experience.... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1912 - 608 páginas
...the sublime; that is, it w productive of the strongest emotion which the mind il capable of feeling. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, PIRANESI. THE PRISONS. PLATE 111 Sin- of the original etching, 21i/ix Ifii/i inches P«Axts:. THE PKSONS.... | |
 | 1926 - 528 páginas
...the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving delight, and are simply terrible, but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 páginas
...deprive the mind of power to act or reason, is distanced or modified terror: immediate pain or danger 'are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful'. The ideas which excite this species of terror are the source The psychology of literary creation and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...and they are delightful, as we every day experience. The cause of this I shall endeavour to investigate hereafter. SECT. VIII. Of the passions which belong... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 páginas
...itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at 21 Hume, "Of Tragedy," essay no. iz in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (London, 1741), 135.... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 páginas
..."delight" only by virtue of the perceiving subject's distance from it, his contemplation of it. For when danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modif1cations, they may be, and they are, delightful. (Enquiry 40) A comparison to Smith here is illuminating.... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 páginas
...aspects then the conditions for a Calvinist sublime will be absent, for as Burke observes in his Enquiry, 'when danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 páginas
...itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...and they are delightful, as we every day experience. The cause of this I shall endeavour to investigate hereafter. Section XVIII The recapitulation To draw... | |
 | Iain Boyd Whyte, Colin Baxter - 1997 - 66 páginas
...terror viewed from a place of safety: -When danger and pain press too nearly, they are incapable of any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain...and they are delightful, as we every day experience. - 22 The joumey across the Forth Bridge, especially with the fate of the Tay Bridge lurking in one's... | |
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When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience. 
