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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION. On Taste
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- SECT. I Of the efficient cause of the Sublime and Beautiful
- SECT. II Association
- SECT. III Cause of Pain and Fear
- SECT. IV Continued
- SECT. V How the Sublime is produced
- SECT. VI How pain can be a cause of Delight
- SECT. VII Exercise necessary for the finer organs
- SECT. VIII Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like Terror
- SECT. IX Why visual objects of great dimensions are Sublime
- SECT. X Unity why requisite to Vastness
- SECT. XI The artificial Infinite
- SECT. XII The vibrations must be similar
- SECT. XIII The effects of Succession in visual objects explained
- SECT. XIV Locke's opinion concerning darkness considered
- SECT. XV Darkness terrible in its own nature
- SECT. XVI Why Darkness is terrible
- SECT. XVII The effects of Blackness
- SECT. XVIII The effects of Blackness moderated
- SECT. XIX The physical cause of Love
- SECT. XX Why Smoothness is beautiful
- SECT. XXI Sweetness, its nature
- SECT. XXII Sweetness relaxing
- SECT. XXIII Variation, why beautiful
- SECT. XXIV Concerning Smallness
- SECT. XXV Of Colour
- PART V
SECT. XXI - Sweetness, its nature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION. On Taste
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- SECT. I Of the efficient cause of the Sublime and Beautiful
- SECT. II Association
- SECT. III Cause of Pain and Fear
- SECT. IV Continued
- SECT. V How the Sublime is produced
- SECT. VI How pain can be a cause of Delight
- SECT. VII Exercise necessary for the finer organs
- SECT. VIII Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like Terror
- SECT. IX Why visual objects of great dimensions are Sublime
- SECT. X Unity why requisite to Vastness
- SECT. XI The artificial Infinite
- SECT. XII The vibrations must be similar
- SECT. XIII The effects of Succession in visual objects explained
- SECT. XIV Locke's opinion concerning darkness considered
- SECT. XV Darkness terrible in its own nature
- SECT. XVI Why Darkness is terrible
- SECT. XVII The effects of Blackness
- SECT. XVIII The effects of Blackness moderated
- SECT. XIX The physical cause of Love
- SECT. XX Why Smoothness is beautiful
- SECT. XXI Sweetness, its nature
- SECT. XXII Sweetness relaxing
- SECT. XXIII Variation, why beautiful
- SECT. XXIV Concerning Smallness
- SECT. XXV Of Colour
- PART V
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- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulWith an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Other Additions, pp. 291 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014