 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pàgines
...when we find so much Uneasiness in the Fear or Grief which we receive from any other Occasion? . . . 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. . .... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pàgines
...speaks of the pleasure of tragedy, he seems to have in mind not a viewing but a reading experience: "[I]t does not arise so properly from the Description...what is Terrible, as from the Reflection we make on our selves at the time of reading it" (Spectator, no. 418, 30 June 1712). This striking progression... | |
 | Jan Godderis - 2006 - 468 pàgines
...uneasiness in the fear or grief which we receive from any other occasion? If we consider... the nature of this pleasure, we shall find that it does not arise...hideous objects, we are not a little pleased to think that we are in no danger ofthem. We consider them, at the same time, as dreadful and harmless; so that... | |
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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... 
