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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... "
The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ... - Página 177
1810
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Select British Classics, Volumen16

1803 - 376 páginas
...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,...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volumen2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...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,...
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1804 - 412 páginas
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen4

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 páginas
...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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 páginas
...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,...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes9-10

British essayists - 1823 - 806 páginas
...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,...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 páginas
...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,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volumen8

1824 - 268 páginas
...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,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volumen8

1832 - 280 páginas
...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...
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The Spectator, no. 315-635

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 páginas
...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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