OF

CRITICIS M.

BY

HENRY HOME, LORD KAMES,

A JUDGE OF THE COURT OF SESSION IN SCOTLAND, &c. &c. &c.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

NEW-YORK:

COLLINS & HANNAY, COLLINS & co., AND G. & C. CARVILL.

W, E. Dean, Printer, Frankfort-Street.

1829.

SG

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chap.

1. Perceptions and Ideas in a train . . . . . . . 11

2. Emotions and Passions . . . . . . . . . 24

Part.

1. Causes unfolded of the Emotions and Passions :

Sect.

1. Difference between Emotion and Passion.-

Causes that are the most common and the

most general.-Passion considered as pro-

ductive of Action . . . . . . . . 25

2. Power of Sounds to raise Emotions and Pas.

sions . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. Causes of the Emotions of Joy and Sorrow ..

4. Sympathetic Emotion of Virtue and its cause.

5. In many instances one Emotion is productive

of another.—The same of Passions ...

....6. Causes of the Passions of Fear and Anger .

:... 7. Emotions caused by Fiction . . . . . .

• . Emotions and Passions as pleasant and painful,

agreeable and disagreeable. — Modification of

• these. Qualities . . . . . . . : : : .

3: Interrupted Existance of Emotions and Passions.

; - Their Crowth and Decay . . . . . . .

4. Coexistent Emotions and Passions . . . . .

5. Influence of Passion with respect to our Percep.

tions, Opinions, and Belief . . . . . . .

Appendix. Methods that Nature hath afforded for

computing Time and Space . . . . . . .

6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes . . .

7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and

Passions , ·

· · · · · ·

3. Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Grandeur and Sublimity. . . . . . . . . .

5. Motion and Force . . . . . . . . . . . 118

6. Novelty, and the unexpected appearance of Objects . 122

7. Risible Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

8. Resemblance and Dissimilitude ..

9. Uniformity and Variety . . . .

Appendix. Concerning the Works of Nature, chiefly

with respect to Uniformity and Variety .. .

150

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