...attempting to distinguish between terror and delight as part of a general clarification of the sublime. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...giving any delight, and are simply terrible, but at a certain distance, and with slight modification, they may be and are delightful, as we every day experience.17...

...pain." Pain is preferable to death and obtains its strength because it is a messenger of death and "when danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible."21 Distance from pain and death, as in a play or in a painting, allows them to bestow delight...

...mushroom pickers."83 Another announced: "Sometimes you get the fungus; sometimes the fungus gets you." When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as every day experience.85 Transcendence implies a measure of risk. One must transcend a challenge86 —...

..."perceiving," as an act of the will. 53 Burke is careful to distinguish terror from sublimity: he writes, "when danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful." Thus he argues that the sublime emerges (among other considerations) from a situation in which the...

...is capable of feeling" (58). Burke also explains that without careful modulation of these sources, "they are incapable of giving any delight, and are...and they are delightful, as we every day experience" (59-60). Trist's reactions confirm these stipulations just as they signal the shifting attitudes toward...

...The question within which a start can be made, is why it is that, when in Burke's terms, 'danger and pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are more simply terrible'. The experience of 'danger and pain' is such that they are not within the actuality...

...terror'), whereas the effect of terror may or may not be combined with an aesthetic 'delight' of this kind: 'When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...and they are delightful, as we every day experience' (13-14). The other two forms of emotional response mentioned in this passage also have precise meanings...

...pain and donger and they are the most powerful of all the passions. Of the Sublime When danger and pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving...they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day eaperience. Edmund Burke A Philasophieal Enquivy into the Origin of Oar Ideas of the Sublime and Beantiful...

...itself . . . more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors [death]. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful." A Philosophical Enquiry, 36—37. Art, he contended, was required to create that distance and so contains...

...anticipated danger rather than actual danger. It results from the astonishing insight that pain and danger "are simply terrible, but at certain distances, and...with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful."43 In his Critique of Judgement, Immanuel Kant investigated in further detail how and what...