YAGE ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.--Part II. SECT. 1. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with [ıv.] The same subject continued . X1. Infinity in pleasing Objects XVI. Colour considered as productive of the Sublime ib. 105 106 108 ib. 109 ib. 110 ib. 111 112 . ON THE SUBLIMÉ AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III. C 113 114 17 SECT. I. Of Beauty 11. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables I. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals iv. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species v. Proportion further considered vi. Fitness not the cause of Beauty VII. The real Effects of Fitness 118 122 125 127 SECT. VIII. The Recapitulation IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali- xi. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue XX111. Elegance and Speciousness ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-Part IV. Sect. 1. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful v. How the Sublime is produced vi. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight vii. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion IX. Why vis!ial Objects of great Dimensions are sublime 1. Unity, why requisite to Vastness XII. The Vibrations must be similar XI1. The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained xiv. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered . Sect. xviii. The Effects uf Blackness moderated xix. The physical Cause of Love xx. Why Smoothness is beautiful On the SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART V. . 11. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of III. General Words before Ideas v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173 vi. Poetry not strictly an imitative Art PREFACE. a BEFORE the philosophical works of Lord BOLINGBROKE had appeared, great things were expected from the leisure of a man, who, from the splendid scene of action in which his talents bad enabled hini to make so conspicuous a figure, had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth. Philosophy began to congratulate herself upon such a prose lyte from the world of business, and hoped to have extendeu her power under the auspices of such a leader. In the midst of these pleasing expectations, the works themselves at last appeared in full body, and with great pomp. Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of nature; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced; those who looked for new helps to society and government; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated; in short, all who consider such things as philosophy, and require some of them at least in every philosophical work, all these were certainly disappointed; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places : and they thought they received but a poor recompense for this disappointment, in see. ing every mode of religion attacked in a lively manner, and the foundation of every virtue, and of all government, sapped with great art and much ingenuity. What advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be usefully exerted for the noblest purposes, in a sort of sullen labour, in which, if the author could succeed, he is obliged to own, that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive bow this sort of writers propose to como W : |
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