Elements of Criticism. Henry Home, Lord Kames

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СКАЧАТЬ Modifications of these Qualities,

Part 3. Interrupted Existence of Emotions and Passions.— Their Growth and Decay,

Part 4. Coexistent Emotions and Passions,

Part 5. Influence of Passion with respect to our Perceptions, Opinions, and Belief,

Appendix. Methods that Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Space,

Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes,

Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions,

Chap. 3. Beauty,

Chap. 4. Grandeur and Sublimity,

Chap. 5. Motion and Force,

Chap. 6. Novelty, and the unexpected appearance of Objects,

Chap. 7. Risible Objects,

Chap. 8. Resemblance and Dissimilitude,<xv>

       Chap. 9. Uniformity and Variety,

       Appendix. Concerning the Works of Nature, chiefly with respect to Uniformity and Variety,

       Chap. 10. Congruity and Propriety,

       Chap. 11. Dignity and Grace,

       Chap. 12. Ridicule,

       Chap. 13. Wit,

       Chap. 14. Custom and Habit,

       Chap. 15. External Signs of Emotions and Passions,

       Chap. 16. Sentiments,

       Chap. 17. Language of Passion,

      VOLUME II

       Chap. 18. Beauty of Language,

       Sect. 1. Beauty of Language with respect to Sound,

       Sect. 2. Beauty of Language with respect to Signification,

       Sect. 3. Beauty of Language from a resemblance between Sound and Signification,

       Sect. 4. Versification,

       Chap. 19. Comparisons,<xvi>

       Chap. 20. Figures,

       Sect. 1. Personification,

       Sect. 2. Apostrophe,

       Sect. 3. Hyperbole,

       Sect. 4. The Means or Instrument conceived to be the agent,

       Sect. 5. A figure which, among related Objects, extends the Properties of one to another,

       Sect. 6. Metaphor and Allegory,

       Sect. 7. Figure of Speech,

       Table 1. Subjects expressed figuratively,

       Table 2. Attributes expressed figuratively,

       Chap. 21. Narration and Description,

       Chap. 22. Epic and Dramatic Compositions,

       Chap. 23. The Three Unities,

       Chap. 24. Gardening and Architecture,

       Chap. 25. Standard of Taste,

       Appendix. Terms defined or explained,

INTRODUCTION<1>

      That nothing external is perceived till first it make an impression upon the organ of sense, is an observation that holds equally in every one of the external senses. But there is a difference as to our knowledge of that impression: in touching, tasting, and smelling, we are sensible of the impression;¹ that, for example, which is made upon the hand by a stone, upon the palate by an apricot, and upon the nostrils by a rose: it is otherwise in seeing and hearing; for I am not sensible of the impression made upon my eye, when I behold a tree; nor of the impression made upon my ear, when I listen to a song.^* That difference in the manner of perceiving СКАЧАТЬ