A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Preface; Introduction; Part I: 1. Novelty; 2. Pain and pleasure; 3. The difference between the removal of pain and positive pleasure; 4. Of delight and pleasure; 5. Joy and grief; 6. Of the passions which belong to self-preservation; 7. Of the sublime; 8. Of the passions which belong to society; 9. The final cause of the difference between the passions; 10. Of beauty; 11. Society and solitude; 12. Sympathy, imitation and ambition; 13. Sympathy; 14. The effects of sympathy in the distresses of others; 15. Of the effects of tragedy; 16. Imitation; 17. Ambition; 18. Recapitulation; 19. The conclusion; Part II: 1. Of the passion caused by the sublime; 2. Terror; 3. Obscurity; 4. Of the difference between clearness and obscurity; 5. Power; 6. Privation; 7. Vastness; 8. Infinity; 9. The fame; 10. Succession and uniformity; 11. The effect of uniformity in building; 12. Magnitude in building; 13. Infinity in pleasing objects; 14. Difficulty; 15. Magnificence; 16. Light; 17. Light in building; 18. Colour considered as productive of the sublime; [18.] Sound and loudness; 19. Suddenness; 20. Intermitting; 21. The cries of animals; 23. Smell and taste; 24. Feeling, pain; Part III: 1. Of beauty; 2. Proportion not the cause of beauty in vegetables; 3. Proportion not the cause of beauty in animals; 4. Proportion not the cause of beauty in the human species; 5. Proportion further considered; 6. Fitness not the cause of beauty; 7. The real effects of fitness; 8. The recapitulation; 9. Perfection not the cause of beauty; 10. How far the idea of beauty may be applied; 11. How far the ideas of beauty may be applied to virtue; 12. The real cause of beauty; 13. Beautiful objects small; 14. Smoothness; 15. Gradual variation; 16. Delicacy; 17. Beauty in colour; 18. Recapitulation; 19. The physiognomy; 20. The eye; 21. Ugliness; 22. Grace; 23. Elegance and speciousness; 24. The beautiful in feeling; 25. The beautiful in sounds; 26. Taste and smell; 27. The sublime and beautiful compared; Part IV: 1. Of the efficient cause of the sublime and beautiful; 2. Association; 3. Cause of pain and fear; 4. Continued; 5. How the sublime is produced; 6. How pain can be a cause of delight; 7. Exercise necessary for the finer organs; 8. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a passion like terror; 9. Why visual subjects of great dimensions are sublime; 10. Unity why requisite to vastness; 11. The artificial infinite; 12. The vibrations must be similar; 13. The effects of succession in visual objects explained; 14. Locke's opinion concerning darkness considered; 15. Darkness terrible in its own nature; 16. Why darkness is terrible; 17. The effects of blackness; 18. The effects of blackness moderated; 19. The physical cause of love; 20. Why smoothness is beautiful; 21. Sweetness, its nature; 22. Sweetness relaxing; 23. Variation, why beautiful; 24. Concerning smallness; 25. Of colour; Part V: 1. Of words; 2. The common effect of poetry; 3. General words before ideas; 4. The effect of words; 5. Examples that words may affect without raising images; 6. Poetry not strictly an imitative art; 7. How words influence the passions.