 | 1803 - 376 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless ; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider^ therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise so properly from the inscription of what is terrible, as from the reflection we makf nalc-e on ourselves at the time of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...of what is terrible, as from the reflection we make on,ourselves at the time of reading it. When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless ; so that, the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless ; so that, the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion ? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless ; so that, the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | 1824 - 268 pàgines
...the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion? If we consider therefore the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
 | 1832 - 280 pàgines
...If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise so T" properly from the description of what is terrible,...We consider them at the same time as dreadful a,nd harm-! less; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...the fearer grief which we receive from any other occasion? If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety. In short,... | |
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When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased to think we are in no danger of them. We consider them, at the same time, as dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive... 
