 ... becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable: it is a pain weakened and diminished. The heart likes naturally to be moved and affected. Melancholy objects suit it, and even disastrous and sorrowful,...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 146edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1825 - 562 pages
...weakened and diminished. The heart likes " naturally to be moved and affected. Melancholy ob" jects suit it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided " they are softened by some circumstance. It is curtain, " that, on the theatre, the representation has always the " effect of reality ; yet it has... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...pain ; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds, that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable....the representation has almost the effect of reality ; but yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle, whatever... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pages
...pain ; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable....the representation has almost the effect of reality ; but yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle, whatever... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...becomes pain, and that the movement of pain, a little moderate, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds, that there is such a thing as a sorrow, soft and agreeable...the representation has almost the effect of reality ; yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle, whatever... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...pain ; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable....the representation has almost the effect of reality ; but yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle, whatever... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...pain ; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable....the representation has almost the effect of reality ; but yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle, whatever... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...pain; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds, that there is such a thing as a sorrow, soft and agreeable:...the representation has almost the effect of reality; yet it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried away by the spectacle; whatever dominion... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...be moved and affected. Melancholy objects suit "it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided that they are "softened by some circumstance. It is certain...the representation has almost the effect of reality ; yet " it has not altogether that effect. However we may be hurried " away by the spectacle ; whatever... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...pain ; and that the move" ment of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it " proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow, soft and agree"able:...suit "it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided that they are "softened by some circumstance. It is certain that on the " theatre, the representation... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...becomes pleasure. Hence it " proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow, soft and agree" able : it is a pain weakened and diminished. The heart likes...suit "it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided that they are "softened by some circumstance. It is certain that on the " theatre, the representation... | |
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