i $6 Dr. Barnes on the Pleafure Jomethnes felt 
little proportion to the terrifying red, or the 
gloomy black. 
In many of the indances which have been 
mentioned, the pleafure mull arife chiefly, if not 
folely, from the circnmjlances , or accompany merits 
of the fcene. The fublime feelings, excited by 
the view of an agitated ocean, relieve and foften 
thofe occafioned by the Ihipwreck. And the 
awe, excited by the prefence of thoufands of men, 
aiding as with one foul, and difplaving magnani¬ 
mity and flrmnefs, in the mod folemn trial, 
tempers thofe fenfations of horror and of pain, 
which would arite from the field of battle. 
The gratification we are attempting to account 
for, depends alfo, in a very confiderable degree, 
upon a principle of human nature, implanted in 
it for the wiled ends j the exercise which it 
gives to the mind, by rouflng it to energy, and 
feeling. Nothing is fo infupportable, as that 
languor and ennui, for the full expreffion of 
which, our language does not afford a term, 
How agreeable it is, to have the foul called 
forth to exertion and fenflbility, let the Gameder 
witnefs, who, unable to endure the laflitude and 
famenefs of unanimated luxury, runs with eager- 
nefs to the place, where probably, await him 
all the irritation and agony of tumultuous 
paffions. 
Again ; It is a law of our nature. That oppo - 
fite paffions, when felt in Jucceffion , and, above 
all, 
