Volume 1

Essays on the nature and principles of taste / by Archibald Alison.

  • Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839.
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essays on the nature and principles of taste / by Archibald Alison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    my own, of an importance not unworthy of being presented to the public. In doing this, I am conscious that I have entered up- on a new and untrodden path ; and I feel all my own weakness in pursuing it: yet I trust my Readers will believe, that I should not have pursued it so long, if I were not convinced that it would finally terminate in views not only important to the Arts of Taste, but important also to the Philosophy of the Human Mind. The Inquiries which follow, naturally di- vide themselves into the following Parts; and are to be prosecuted in the following order. 1. I shall begin with an Analysis of the Effect which is produced upon the Mind, when the Emotions of Beauty or Sublimity are felt. I shall endeavour to show, that this eifect is very different from the deter- mination of a Sense ; that it is not in fact a Simple, but a Complex Emotion ; that it Invplves, in all cases, I sty the production of