1. Difference between Emotion and Paf fion. Caufes that are the most 7. Emotions caufed by Fiction, 2. Emotions and Paffions as pleafant and } 3. Beauty of Language from a resemblance 4. Verfification, 19. Comparisons, 169 234 249 334 23. The Three Unities, 178 THAT nothing external is perceived till firft it make an impreffion upon the organ of fenfe, is an observation that holds equally in every one of the external fenfes. But there is a difference as to our knowledge of that impreffion in touching, tafting, and fmelling, we are fenfible of the impreffion; that, for example, which is made upon the hand by a ftone, upon the palate by an apricot, and upon the noftrils by a role it is otherwise in seeing and hearing; for I am not fenfible of the impreffion made upon my eye, when I behold a tree; nor of the impreffion made upon my ear, when I liften to a fong'. That difference in the manner of perceiving external objects, diftinguifheth remarkably hearing and feeing from the other fenfes; and I am ready to fhow, that it diftinguifheth ftill more remarkably the feelings of the former from thofe of the latter: every feeling, pleasant or painful, must be in the mind; and yet because in tafting, touching, and fmelling, we are fenfible of the impreffion made upon the organ, we are led to place there alfo the pleasant or painful feeling caufed by that impref See the appendix, § 13. A |