A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful #221472

He ohjerved that the ideas of the fuhlime aud heautiful were frequently confounded and that hoth were ia difcriminately applied to things greatly differing, and fometi mes of natures directly oppojite. Efven Lon ginus, in his incomparahle difcourfi upon a part of this fichj eff, has comprehended things extremely repugnant to each other, un der one common name of the Sublime.