1. On the Sublime and Beautiful
... so overwhelming it passes over beauty into powerful emotion. It seems the opposition between the two arises from Burke's definitions of joy and delight. Beauty is reminiscent of joy because it creates pleasure smoothly and arises daintily on its own, while the sublime arises from delight, which is pleasure from the loss of pain, in two ways. The first is that sublimity can arise when one goes through pain in ... brings sublimity can be expressed through the great tragedies because one takes pleasure watching the events unfold because the viewer can predict what comes next while all the ...
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