Works, Volume 1

J. Dodsley, 1792

OF	1

INTRODUCTION On Tafte	69

A Philofophical Enquiry into the Origin of	89

other	95

Sympathy Imitation and Ambition	104

Ambition	111

PART II	119

Terror	120

Uglinefs	188

Elegance and Speciouſneſs	189

The Beautiful in Sounds	191

Taſte and Smell	193

The Sublime and Beautiful compared	194

PART IV	197

Affociation	199

Cauſe of Pain and Fear	200

Obſcurity	121

Of the difference between Clearnefs and Obfcurity with regard to the Paffions	122

IV The fame fubject continued	123

Power	127

Privation	134

Vaftneſs	135

Infinity	137

Magnitude in Building	140

Magnificence	142

Light	144

Light in Building	146

Sound and Loudneſs	147

Suddennefs	148

Intermitting	149

The Cries of Animals	150

Smell and tafte Bitters and Stenches ibid XXII Feeling Pain	152

PART III	153

Of Beauty	155

getables	156

Proportion not the cauſe of Beauty in Ani mals	160

Proportion not the caufe of Beauty in the human Species	161

Proportion further confidered	167

SECT Page VI Fitneſs not the cauſe of Beauty	170

The real effects of Fitness	173

The Recapitulation	175

Perfection not the caufe of Beauty	176

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to the qualities of the mind	177

How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to virtue	178

The real caufe of Beauty	179

Beautiful objects ſmall	180

Smoothness	181

Gradual Variation	182

Delicacy	184

Beauty in colour	185

Recapitulation	186

The Phyfiognomy ibid XX The Eye	187

Continued	201

How the Sublime is produced	203

How Pain can be a cauſe of Delight	204

Exercife neceffary for the finer Organs	205

Why things not dangerous fometimes pro duce a paffion like Terror	206

Unity why requifite to Vaſtneſs	208

XI	209

The vibrations muſt be ſimilar	210

The effects of fucceffion in vifual objects explained	211

Lockes opinion concerning Darkneſs con fidered	214

Darkneſs terrible in its own nature	215

Why darkneſs is terrible	216

The effects of Blackneſs	218

The effects of Blackneſs moderated	220

The phyfical caufe of Love	221

Why Smoothnefs is Beautiful	222

Sweetness its nature	223

Sweetneſs relaxing	226

Variation why beautiful	227

Concerning Smallneſs	229

Of colour	232

PART V	235

The common effect of Poetry not by raif ing ideas of things	236

General words before ideas	238

The effect of Words	239

Examples that words may affect without raiſing images	241

Poetry not strictly an imitative art	246

How Words influence the Paffions	247

A foort Account of a late foort Adminiftration	251

Obfervations on a Publication intituled The pre 22	257

114	403

Thoughts on the Caufe of the prefnet Difcontents	409

PART	413

Speech on American Taxation	507

PREFACE	509

Title	Works, Volume 1 Works, Edmund Burke
Author	Edmund Burke
Publisher	J. Dodsley, 1792
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	28 Dec 2007

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