...pleasure. Surely an unbiassed reader must be somewhat startled with opinions like the following : ' To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy...must previously consider how we are affected by the feel' ings of our fellow-creatures in circumstances of real distress. / am * convinced we have a degree...

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...as is commonly believed. Burke an the Sublime. § 94the Effiils of Sympathy iu Dißre/ts of others, To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, »e muft previoufly confider, how we are affected by the feelings of our fellow-creatures in circumuancesof...

...extensive as it is commonly believed. SECT. XIV.— THE EFFECTS OF SYMPATHY IN THE DISTRESSES OF OTHERS. To examine this point concerning the effect of Tragedy...feelings of our fellow-creatures in circumstances of real distressI am convinced we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes...

...as it i.' commonly believed. SECT. XIV. — THE EFFECTS OP SYMPATHY IX ТНГ DISTRESSES OF OTHERS. To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, we must prcviouilr consider how we are affected by the feelings r>f ' "ir fellow-creatures in circumstances...

...unintelligible. To Burke, who wrote at a later period, it falls to my lot to reply at greater length. " To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner," says that writer, " we must previously consider how we are affected by the feelings of our fellow-creatures...

...unintelligible. To Burke, who wrote at a later period, it falls to my lot to reply at greater length. " To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner," says that writer, " we must previously consider how we are affected by the feelings of our fellow-creatures...

...much as the destruction of Troy does in fablc. Our delight, in cases of this kind, is very greatly To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, what must we previously consider ? Of what is our author convinced, and why ? How is this illustrated...

...est." Book ii. v. 1. Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, part i. section 14, 15) says, " I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of others." But he differs from Lucretius in thinking that our own immunity from suffering is the tondition and...

...much as the destruction of Troy does in fable. Our delight, in cases of this kind, is very greatly To examine, this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, what must we previously consider ? Of what is our author convinced, and why ? How is this illustrated...