The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12).

XXV.  The Beautiful in Sounds 203

XXVI.  Taste and Smell 205

XXVII.  The Sublime and Beautiful compared 205

PART IV.

I. Of the Efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful 208

II.  Association 209

III.  Cause of Pain and Fear 210

IV.  Continued 212

V. How the Sublime is produced 215

VI.  How Pain can be a Cause of Delight 215

VII.  Exercise necessary for the Finer Organs 216

VIII.  Why Things not Dangerous sometimes produce a
       Passion like Terror 217

IX.  Why Visual Objects of Great Dimensions are Sublime 217

X. Unity, why requisite to Vastness 219

XI.  The Artificial Infinite 220

XII.  The Vibrations must be Similar 222

XIII.  The Effects of Succession in Visual Objects explained 222

XIV.  Locke’s Opinion concerning Darkness considered 225

XV.  Darkness Terrible in its own Nature 226

XVI.  Why Darkness is Terrible 227

XVII.  The Effects of Blackness 229

XVIII.  The Effects of Blackness moderated 231

XIX.  The Physical Cause of Love 232

XX.  Why Smoothness is Beautiful 234

XXI.  Sweetness, its Nature 235

XXII.  Sweetness relaxing 237

XXIII.  Variation, why Beautiful 239

XXIV.  Concerning Smallness 240

XXV.  Of Color 244

PART V.

I. Of Words 246

II.  The Common Effect of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of Things 246

III.  General Words before Ideas 249

IV.  The Effect of Words 250

V. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 252

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