1. On the Sublime and Beautiful
The first definition of sublimity through pain can be expressed through the eyes of a someone who is addicted to a drug because the he or she experiences pain all the time that he or she is deprived from it, but that moment when they get their hands on it creates a feeling of sublimity through the knowledge that they will be able to escape the pain and move into sublimity. ... Burke's sublime has a noxious aura around it because the sublime finds its pleasure through pain because the sublime can arise in two ways the first being that it is pleasure can be found from escaping pain, which i...
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