CHAP. II. OF SMELL.

1. Its Organs, and their Modes of Action.

2. Connected with mental Sympathies in Brutes,

3. In Dogs.

4. In Oxen.

5. Mr. Burke's Opinion considered.

6. Sexual Sympathies of Brutes.

CHAP. III. OF TOUCH.

1. Its Modes and Limits-Smoothness.

2. Sexual Sympathies—Irritation,

3. Titillation.

4. Sir Joshua Reynolds's Position confirmed.

5. Internal Stimuli.

6. External Stimuli in Plants.

7. Sensation of Plants, organic Sensations in general,

8. Have no Resemblance to Objects or Ideas. Evi,

dence of Sense.

9. Ideas-according to Plato.

10. Scepticism.

11. Its Origin.

12. Inverted Action of the Nerves. Cessation.

13: Various Pleasures of Cessation or inverted Action.

CHAP. IV. OF HEARING.

1. Organs and Modes of Action,
2. Sound—how conveyed.
3. Its Nature and Causes.
4. Its Effects, Modes, and Degrees of Irritation,
5. Simple and mixed Tones.

6. Connected with mental Sympathies in Animals.

7. In Mankind.

8. Expression in Music.

9. Articulate Sounds.

10. Verse.

11. Compared with Music.

12. Measure and Quantity.

13. How violated in the dead Languages.

14. How far addressed to organic Sense.

15. Musical and Poetical Melody.

16. Distance and Direction of Sounds.

17.

Their Grandeur and Sublimity.

CHAP. V. OF SIGHT.

i. Its Causes.
2. Primary Effects. Projection.

3. Distance.

4. Visible Magnitude.

5. Error of Mr. Burke.

6. Irritation-its Effects on the Organ.
7. Pleasures and Pains. Colours.
8. Reflected and refracted Lights. Effects of

Colours, simple and mixed.
9. Sensual or visible Beauty.
10. Degrees of Sensibility in the Organs.
11 & 12. Smoothness, Sharpness, and Brilliancy in

polished and transparent Objects.

13. In the Coats of Animals.

14. In Buildings, Gardens, Pieces of Water, &c.

15. Neatness.

16. General Principles of visible Beauty.

17. Illustrated by particular Instances. Deceptions

of Sight.

18. Mixed Qualities and Sensations—how separatedor

19. Adverse Opinions of Mr. Price and Boileau.

V 20. Grottesques.

21. Mixed Qualities and Sensations further explained.

22. Consequence of Mr. Burke's Doctrine of Beauty.

23. Mr. Burke's System compared with that of Sir

Joshua Reynolds.

24. Illustrated by Examples of the Temples of Vesta

and Indian Domes.

25. The latter further examined. Mental Sympathies.

26. Beauties of Colour and Form in Animals. Ap-

propriated Beauties of particular Kinds, de-

pending on Habit. Irregularity.

27. Sexual Predilections--their Influence and Ef-

fects.

28. Force of Light--as reflected.

29. As acting directly upon the Eye. Mr. Burke's

Error.

30. Darkness. Mr. Burke's Notion of it examined.

31. Other Privations compared with it.

32. Difficulty of considering Sensation alone.

33. Particularly in Vision.

34. Progress of Perception.

35. Its Effect in reducing the Pleasures of Sense.

1. Artificial Perception-how far independent of

3. Imitation in general.

4. Its Pleasures of short Duration.

5. Science in Art-its Pleasures.

6. Whence derived.

7. Originals and Copies--their Difference.

8. Drawings and unfinished Sketches.

9. Juvenile and imperfect Works.

10. Mental Habits--their Effect on Sensation.

11. Exactitude of Imitation--where vicious.

12. Where just and necessary—in Painting.

13. In Sculpture.

14. Sculpture compared with Painting.

15. Poetry with Music.

16. Articulate Language and inarticulate Notes.

17. Idiom in Language, Rhythm, Prosody.

18. Melody in Language.

19. Modes of Articulation.

20. Verse considered in the Abstract.

21. As connected with Sense or Meaning.

22. With Passion, Sentiment, and Sympathy.

23. Irregularity and Variety comparatively consi-

dered-in Poetry and Music-in Sculpture

and Painting

24. Pope and Milton.

25. English Verse-its Nature and Character.

26. General distinct Characters of Verse and Prose.

27. Verse necessary to Poetry, and wherefore.

28. Paradise Lost.

29. English Blank Verse-its Defects in Milton.

30. In Thomson and Cowper.

31. Inversions and Transpositions.

32. Collocation of Words. Order of the Imagina-

tion. Order of the Understanding.

33. Their different Effects in Poetry.

34. Various Effects of Verse.
35. Vicious Modes of pronouncing Greek and Latin.
36, 37. Why they do not destroy the Character of

Verse.

CHAP. II. OF IMAGINATION.

1. Association of Ideas—when become habitual,

involuntary.

2. Its Effects on Temper and Disposition. Lunacy.

3. Intoxication.

4. Dreams.

5. Anxiety, Grief, and Vexation.

6. Vivacity, Wit, Madness.

7. Idiocy.

8. Memory-how connected with Imagination.

9. Memory-artificial.

10. Natural, but unregulated.

11. Prosers and Prattlers.

12. Pleasures of Intellect-in natural Objects.

13. In social and moral.

14. In the fine Arts.

15. The Picturesque.

16. Origin and Use of this Word.

17. Its proper Meaning.

18. Style of Painting at its Revival.

19. Ils Defects.

20. How changed and corrected.

21. Thence the Distinction of Picturesque.

22. Which could not have existed before.

23. In what Sense picturesque Objects may not be

beautiful.

24. Objects purely picturesque.

25. Pleasures of Sense and Intellect improve each

other.