...sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror' (Burke 1759: 58). And it results in 'the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling' (Ibid.)....

...example of the sublime — a phenomenon, according to the 17th-century English philosopher Edmund Burke, "productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." In delineating a theory of the sublime Burke adds that "astonishment ... is the effect of the sublime...

...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." It was this feeling of terror which Jefferson described when he visited the Natural Bridge: it is "the...

...sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. . .When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible:...

...sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.11 The beautiful, on the other hand, he associated with pleasure and society: I call beauty...

...sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...productive of the strongest emotion which the mind 1 Thomas Warton, "The Pleasures of Melancholy," line 44. Like Burkes oxymoronic "delightful terror,"...

...role of the sublime in the Romantic sensibility and early modem aesthetics. in any sort terrible or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime." This pain and danger, generally associated with fear of death, are delightful according to Burke, when...

...verbunden. Für Burke erweist es sich als "the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling", denn "the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure".218 Um ein Gefühl von Erhabenheit zu generieren, darf die Gefahr jedoch nicht als unmittelbare...

...the sublime originates from objects 'fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain', and that these '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...

...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror" — at any rate, "at certain distances" from danger, when fear gives way to the de\ightfu\ frisson...