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2LAJU 197 ORD
INTRODUCTION. On Taste
PART I.
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Sect.
1. Novelty
2. Pain and Pleasure
3. The Difference between the Removal of Pain and posi-
4. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other
5. Joy and Grief
6. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation
7. Of the Sublime
8. Of the Passions which belong to Society
9. The final Cause of the Difference between the Passions
belonging to Self-preservation, and those which re-
gard the Society of the Sexes
10. Of Beauty
11. Society and Solitude:
12. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition
ib.
14. The effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others
15. Of the Effects of Tragedy
16. Imitation
17. Ambition
18. The Recapitulation
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19. The Conclusion
PART II.
1. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime
2. Terror.
3. Obscurity
4. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with
regard to the Passions
5. The same subject continued
1. Of Beauty
2. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables
3. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals
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3. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species 89
5. Proportion further considered
6. Fitness not the Cause of Beauty
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9. Perfection not the Cause of Beauty
105
10. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Qua-
litles of the Mind.
11. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue 107
12. The real Cause of Beauty
13. Beautiful Objects small
14. Smoothness
15. Gradual Variation
16. Delicacy
17. Beauty in Colour
18. Recapitulation
19. The Physiognomy
20. The Eye
21. Ugliness
22. Grace
23. Elegance and Speciousness
24. The Beautiful in Feeling
26. Taste and Smell.
25. The Beautiful in Sounds
27. The Sublime and Beautiful compared
PART IV,
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1. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful •
8. Why Things not dangerous sometimes produce a Pas-
sion like Terror
10. Unity, why requisite to Vastness
11. The artificial Infinite
12. The Vibrations must be similar
13. The Effects of Succession in Visual Objects explained
14. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered
15. Darkness terrible in its own Nature
16. Why Darkness is terrible
17. The Effects of Blackness
18. The Effects of Blackness moderated
19. The Physical Cause of Love
20. Why Smoothness is beautiful
21. Sweetness, its Nature
22. Sweetness, relaxing.
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2. The Common Effect of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of
5. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 163
6. Poetry not strictly an Imitative Art
7. How Words influence the Passions
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