 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 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 - 1883 - 708 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 - 1889 - 556 pàgines
...uneasiness uithjLJkflr or grief which we rf< PJVP fc^_iii' If we consider, therefore, the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little_p|paiFiP^ +" +ki™k TO am in no danger of them. We consider them at the same time as dreadful... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 320 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...what is Terrible, as from the Reflection we make on our selves at the time of reading it When we look on such hideous Objects, we are not a little pleased... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 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...what is Terrible, as from the Reflection we make on our selves at the time of reading it, When we look on such hideous Objects, we are not a little pleased... | |
 | Emil Saudé - 1906 - 88 pàgines
...beim Genuß eines poetischen Werkes angenehm wirken, legt Addison im folgenden dar (Spect. No. 418) : „When we look on such hideous objects, we are not...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 (of.... | |
 | Barbara Claire Freeman - 2023 - 220 pàgines
...pleasures depend upon a comparison between our own state of safety and the danger or terror we contemplate: When we look on such hideous Objects, we are not a...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. ...... | |
 | David Simpson - 1995 - 224 pàgines
...reading experience And reading protects as it substitutes. Descriptions of sublime horrors leave us "not a little pleased to think we are in no Danger of them, " and representations of suffering "teach us to set a just Value upon our own Condition" (no. 418,... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 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...what is terrible, as from the reflection we make on our selves at the time of reading it. When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - 2004 - 348 pàgines
...in the Fear or Grief which we receive from any other Occasion? ... The Nature of this Pleasure ... does not arise so properly from the Description of...what is Terrible, as from the Reflection we make on our Selves at the time of reading it. When we look on such hideous Objects, we are not a little pleased... | |
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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... 
