 But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 82by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Bart van Leeuwen - Multiculturalism - 2003 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Tim Milnes - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 294 pages
...'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... | |
 | Alexander Tzonis - Architecture - 2004 - 554 pages
...the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because 1 am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful...we every day experience. The cause of this I shall endeavour to investigate hereafter. Part II. Sect. I. Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion... | |
 | Jan Johnson-Smith - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 322 pages
...its heart, but points out that it produces delight when it does not pose too close a threat to us. 'When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...they are delightful, as we every day experience.'" 0 Burke counts artistic representations, tragedy, for example, within the Sublime. Immanuel Kant's... | |
 | Allan Hepburn - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 352 pages
...response. We react according to the reality or the threat of pain. Pain instructs, as Burke makes clear: "When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...and they are delightful, as we every day experience" (305-6). After terror subsides, we extract the lesson that conformity is expected. This conformity... | |
 | Jesse Goldhammer - History - 2005 - 386 pages
...emotions could excite a feeling of delight, it was also highly unstable: "When danger or pain press [sic] too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight,...they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."12 Burke 's point is that the delightful feelings invoked by the sight of terrible suffering... | |
 | Daniel O'Quinn - Drama - 2005 - 444 pages
...joins us in this common humanity relies on a representational distantiation: "When danger or pain pass too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight...modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we everyday experience."29 This distance preserves the immanence of the individual and establishes mediate... | |
 | Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith - Art - 2006 - 376 pages
...Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958 [1757], Sections VII, X, XIII, XV, XVI, pp. 39-40, 42^3, 44-45, 47-50. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas...we every day experience. The cause of this I shall endeavour to investigate hereafter. 86 Section X Of beauty The passion which belongs to generation,... | |
 | Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body could enjoy. ... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable...they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience21. (...) The passions which belong to self-preservation, turn on pain and danger; they are... | |
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