Elements of Criticism, Vol. 1 (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)

Front Matter......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Contents, p. vii......Page 7
Introduction, p. ix......Page 9
Editor's Note, p. xix......Page 19
Acknowledgements, p. xxiii......Page 23
Volume 1......Page 25
Title Page, p. 1......Page 27
To the King, p. 3......Page 29
Preface to the Second Edition, p. 5......Page 31
Contents, p. 7......Page 33
Original Introduction, 1......Page 37
Chap. 1. Perceptions and Ideas in a train, 17......Page 47
Chap. 2. Emotions and Passions, 33......Page 58
Sect. 1. Difference between Emotion and Passion.— Causes that are the most common and the most general.—Passion considered as productive of Action, 35......Page 59
Sect. 2. Power of Sounds to raise Emotions and Passions, 43......Page 69
Sect. 3. Causes of the Emotions of Joy and Sorrow, 46......Page 72
Sect. 4. Sympathetic Emotion of Virtue, and its cause, 48......Page 74
Sect. 5. In many instances one Emotion is productive of another. The same of Passions, 52......Page 78
Sect. 6. Causes of the Passions of Fear and Anger, 62......Page 88
Sect. 7. Emotions caused by Fiction, 66......Page 92
Part 2. Emotions and Passions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and disagreeable. Modifications of these Qualities, 77......Page 103
Part 3. Interrupted Existence of Emotions and Passions.— Their Growth and Decay, 83......Page 109
Part 4. Coexistent Emotions and Passions, 89......Page 115
Part 5. Influence of Passion with respect to our Perceptions, Opinions, and Belief, 112......Page 138
Appendix. Methods that Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Space, 121......Page 147
Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes, 129......Page 155
Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions, 131......Page 157
Chap. 3. Beauty, 141......Page 167
Chap. 4. Grandeur and Sublimity, 150......Page 176
Chap. 5. Motion and Force, 179......Page 205
Chap. 6. Novelty, and the unexpected appearance of Objects, 185......Page 211
Chap. 7. Risible Objects, 193......Page 219
Chap. 8. Resemblance and Dissimilitude, 197......Page 223
Chap. 9. Uniformity and Variety, 216......Page 242
Appendix. Concerning the Works of Nature, chiefly with respect to Uniformity and Variety, 229......Page 255
Chap. 10. Congruity and Propriety, 233......Page 259
Chap. 11. Dignity and Grace, 245......Page 271
Chap. 12. Ridicule, 253......Page 279
Chap. 13. Wit, 264......Page 290
Chap. 14. Custom and Habit, 280......Page 306
Chap. 15. External Signs of Emotions and Passions, 296......Page 322
Chap. 16. Sentiments, 311......Page 337
Chap. 17. Language of Passion, 348......Page 374
End of the First Volume. p. 367......Page 393