...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. Of the passion caused by the SUBLIME...

...can only arouse pleasure if it does not threaten to survival, if it can be regarded with disinterest. "When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful."23 For Burke, an object is considered genuinely artful, truly aesthetic, if certain conditions...

...Indeed, Burke goes to great lengths to emphasise the necessary element of moderation in the sublime: 'When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience'.2" Ending one's life 'in the torments' would preclude the possibility of drawing satisfaction...

...about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime [...] When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, äs we every day experience.58 Man mag die Forderung der Distanz als räumliche deuten im Sinne des...

...original sense of an appreciation of what would, in other circumstances, be dangerous. Burke wrote, "When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful."44 By approaching large, wild nature that bespoke no human presence, the viewer could hope...

...seven of Edmund Burke 's Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas on the Suhlime and the Beautiful (1756): "When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply retrible; but at certain distances and with certain modifications they may be, and they are delighrful,...

...the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." (36) In the same section he concludes: "When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we everv day experience." (36-37) 55. Neil Hertz, The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the...

...door bliksem getroffen te worden, slaat de positieve verwondering om in het unheimliche en vreselijke. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful [...] (Burke, aw, p. 36-37). Burke somt veel karakteristieken op die volgens hem het verheven object...

...allowing the sufferings of the victim to unsettle the composure of the spectator: 'When danger and pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible' (Enquiry, 40). Instead of Smith's stoical selfcontrol, the body may be convulsed into action, giving...

...'ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure', but further, that 'at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful [. . .]'.4:! This disrupts the traditional correlation of taste and pleasure by describing an aesthetic...