 | David Hume - 1854 - 584 pages
...and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom wre love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch...ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction : and it is precisely that mixture of sentiments which composes an agreeable sorrow, and tears... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch...misfortune of a hero to whom we are attached. In the * Reflections sur la Poetique, § 36. same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 590 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch...misfortune of a hero to whom we are attached. In the * Reflections sur la Poetiquc, § 36. same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...whom we love, and to reduce that * Essay on Tragedy. t Reflexions sur la Poctiqnc, sect, xxxvi. M 9 affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...whom we love, and to reduce that * Essay on Tragedy. t R£flexions sur la Po6tique, sect, xxxvi. M 3 affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for "he misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting... | |
 | 1886 - 414 pages
...the whole of what we see. This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain andta reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch...ourselves, by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction: And it is precisely that mixture of sentiments, which composes an agreeable sorrow, and tears... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the "pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we "love, and to reduce that affliction to such a...whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort our" selves by reflecting that it is nothing but a fiction : and it is 8 Reflections sur la poetique,... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it 4 In his Reflexions sur la poetique, published in 1 742, but written long before that, Bernard le Bovier... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - 1997 - 322 pages
...fictional representation, "suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure." 54 Fontenelle goes on to suggest that we feel a mixture of sentiments - sympathetic suffering along... | |
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This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. 
