flights of science. By looking into physical causes, our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit,whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chace is certainly of service. Cicero, true as he was to the Academic philosophy, and consequently led to reject the certainty of physical, as of every other kind of knowledge, yet freely confesses its great importance to the human underftanding: "Est animorum ingeniorumque "nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pa"bulum consideratio contemplatioque "naturæ." If we can direct the lights we derive from such exalted speculations, upon the humbler field of the imagination, whilst investigate the springs, and trace the courses of our passions, we may not only communicate to the taste a fort of philosophical solidity, but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste, without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something illiberal. ΤΗΕ SECT. I. Novelty 4I SECT. II. Pain and Pleasure 43 as opposed to each other SECT. V. Joy and Grief 47 51 54 SECT. VI. Of the Paffions which belong to Self-preservation SEC T. VII. Of the Sublime 57 58 SECT. VIII. Of the Paffions which belong to fociety 60 SECT. SE C T. IX. The final caufe of the difference between the paffions be- SE CT. XIV. The effects of Sym- pathy in the diftreffes of others SE CT. XV. Of the effects of Tragedy SECT. XVI. Imitation 72 75 79 SECT. XVII. Ambition 82 SE C T. XVIII. Recapitulation 84 SE C T. IV. Of the difference between Clearnefs and Obfcurity with regard to ΙΟΙ SECT. [IV.] The fame fubject con- tinued 102 SECT. mity 132 SECT. X. Magnitude in Building 136 jects SÉC T. XII. Difficulty SECT. XIII. Magnificence SECT. XIV. Light 138 139 140 144 SECT. XV. Light in Building 147 SE C T. XVI. Colour confidered as productive of the Sublime 149 SECT. XVII. Sound and Loudness 150 SECT. XVIII. Suddenness 152 SECT. XIX. Intermitting 153 SECT. XX. The Cries of animals 155 SEC T. XXI. Smell and Tafte. Bit- 156 SEC T. XXII. Feeling. Pain 159 SECT. IV. Proportion not the cause dered 186 SECT. VI. Fitnefs not the cause of 191. Beauty 197 SEC T. VIII. The Recapitulation 202 Beauty may be applied to Virtue 208 |