Литература как таковая. От Набокова к Пушкину: Избранные работы о русской словесности.

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«I have before observed, that whatever is qualified to cause terror, is a foundation capable of the sublime» (Burke E. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. P. 156). См. также первые строки главки под заглавием «Of the Sublime»: «Whatever is filled in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger; that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling» (Там же. P. 38).