Chap. 2. continued. 6. Caufes of the Paffions of Fear 81 7. Emotions caufed by Fiction, 88 2. Emotions and Paffions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and difagreeable. -Modification of thefe Qualities, 3. Interrupted Existence of Emotions and Paffions.-Their Growth and De 105 cay, 4. Coexiftent Emotions and Paffions, Appendix. Methods that Nature hath 6. Refemblance of Emotions to their Cau fes, 7. Final Caufes of the more frequent Emo- 3. Beauty, 4. Grandeur and Sublimity, 7. Rifible Objects, 8. Refemblance and Diffimilitude, Pag. 5. Motion and Force, 6. Novelty, and the unexpected appearance of Objects, 115 124 152 165 178 181 195 210 250 258 272 278 Chap. Chap. 10, Congruity and Propriety, 11. Dignity and Grace, 12. Ridicule, VOLUME II, 18. Beauty of Language, Sect. 13. Wit, 14. Cuftom and Habit, 400 15. External Signs of Emotions and Paffions, 426 16. Sentiments, 451 17. Language of Paffion, 494 1. Beauty of Language with respect to Sound, 2. Beauty of Language with respect to Signification, 3. Beauty of Language from a refemblance between Sound and Signification, 4. Verfification, 19. Comparisons, Pag. 305 325 333 352 366 381 3 6 18 83 98 183 Chap. Chap. 1. Perfonification, 4. The Means or Inftrument conceived 5. A figure which, among related Ob- 6. Metaphor and Allegory, Table 21. Narration and Defeription, 22. Epic and Dramatic Compofitions, 23. The Three Unities, 24. Gardening and Architecture, 25. Standard of Tafte, Appendix. Terms defined or explained, Pag. 227 228 255 259 1. Subjects expressed figuratively, 305 2. Attributes expreffed figuratively 312 267 268 275 299 325 369 403 430 487 505 INTRODUCTION. T HAT nothing external is perceived till firft it make an impreffion upon the or gan of fenfe, is an observation that holds equally in every one of the external fenfes. But there is a difference as to our knowledge of that impreffion in touching, tasting, and smelling, we are fenfible of the impreffion; that, for example, which is made upon the hand by a stone, upon the palate by an apricot, and upon the noftrils by a rofe it is otherwife in feeing and hearing; for I am not fenfible of the impreffion made upor my eye, when I behold a tree; nor of the impreffion made upon my ear, when I listen to a fong *. That difference in the manner of perceiving external objects, diftinguisheth remarkably hearing and feeing from the other fenfes ; and I am ready to fhow, that it diftinguifheth ftill more remarkably the feelings of the former from that of the latter; ; every feeling, pleafant or painful, must be in the mind; and yet, becaufe in tafting, touching, and fmelling, we are fenfible of the impreffion made upon the organ, we are led to place there alfo the pleafant or painful feeling See the Appendix, § 13. VOL. I. cauled caufed by that impreffion* ; but, with respect to feeing and hearing, being infenfible of the organic impreffion, we are not mifled to affign a wrong place to the pleasant or painful feelings caused by that impreffion; and therefore we naturally place them in the mind, where they really are: upon that account, they are conceived to be more refined and spiritual, than what are derived from tafting, touching, and fmelling; for the latter feelings, feeming to exist externally at the organ of fenfe, are conceived to be merely corporeal. The pleasures of the eye and the ear, being thus elevated above thofe of the other external fenfes, acquire fo much dignity as to become a laudable entertainment. They are not, however, fet on a level with the purely intellectual; being no less inferior in dignity to intellectual pleasures, than fuperior to the organic or corporeal : they indeed After the utmost efforts, we find it beyond our power to conceive the flavour of a rose to exift in the mind: we are neceffarily led to conceive that pleasure as existing in the noftrils along with the impreffion made by the rose upon that organ. And the fame will be the refult of experiments with respect to every feeling of taste, touch, and fmell. Touch affords the moft fatisfactory experiments. Were not that the delufion is detected by philofophy, no perfon would hefitate to pronounce, that the pleasure arifing from touching a smooth, soft, and velvet furface, has its existence at the ends of the fingers, without once dreaming of its exifting any where elfe. resemble |
