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... tacles and representations of a tragic kind , though it be universally confessed that the sensations and passions excited thereby are in their nature painful , and often exquisitely so , is at first view so singular and contra- dictory ...
... tacles and representations of a tragic kind , though it be universally confessed that the sensations and passions excited thereby are in their nature painful , and often exquisitely so , is at first view so singular and contra- dictory ...
Page 50
... . This would suppose that suffering and distress were in themselves a grateful spec- tacle , if they affect not ourselves ; that there was a real malignity in the human heart , and 8 was 50 ON TRAGEDY , AND THE INTEREST.
... . This would suppose that suffering and distress were in themselves a grateful spec- tacle , if they affect not ourselves ; that there was a real malignity in the human heart , and 8 was 50 ON TRAGEDY , AND THE INTEREST.
Page 56
... tacles which in their nature are painful . But this is utterly contrary to fact ; and the attention to fact , in this instance , as in what I have already noticed , will demonstrate the incompetence of Du Bos ' theory ; and dis- cover ...
... tacles which in their nature are painful . But this is utterly contrary to fact ; and the attention to fact , in this instance , as in what I have already noticed , will demonstrate the incompetence of Du Bos ' theory ; and dis- cover ...
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... tacle of pain excites , have used the term pleasure , yet with a visible dubiousness and reluctance , because language immediately suggested no other term ; though it by no means corresponded to my idea , nor to the real truth of the ...
... tacle of pain excites , have used the term pleasure , yet with a visible dubiousness and reluctance , because language immediately suggested no other term ; though it by no means corresponded to my idea , nor to the real truth of the ...
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... an union of attainments is however a rare spec- tacle ; for , learning abstracted from other circumstances has a contrary tendency , and G 2 the 1 the world is so persuaded of this , that it ON LEARNING AND THE ARTS . 88.
... an union of attainments is however a rare spec- tacle ; for , learning abstracted from other circumstances has a contrary tendency , and G 2 the 1 the world is so persuaded of this , that it ON LEARNING AND THE ARTS . 88.
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