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    application of the principle to ^ n extent which borders the ridiculous . Mr Alison explains the pleasure we feel at the sight of lively colours by the associations of riches and power , with which they are generally in company . This appears to me to be a resolving of one simple phenomenon into several

    complicated ones , and calling that an explanation . I see no reason for denying that the eye should be an organ of pleasure as original as the palate , or the muscular system generally . Every organ of sense , moderately exercised , produces sensations of pleasure ; and if the pleasures of colour are to be resolved into associations of ideas , I know no reason why the same explana-#

    tion should not be given for the pains of hunger . The beauty arising from associations of the pleasures of knowledge ; the beauty arising from associations of the domestic affections ; from those of the public affections ; from those of veneration and the moral sentiments ;—each of these classes of

    beauty , separately analysed , and shown to arise with every variety of object , and compared with each of the other classes in the intensity of the enjoyment of which it is capable , and the pauses of this graduation of capabilities , would form a system of which the whole force would go in support of the principle of the subordination of the human imagination to general laws , Hid the consequent reality of a general Standard of Taste . Jm . AJ .

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    What vision hover'd o ' er thy nightly couch , Oh Painter of ecstatic beauty ' s forms , When this sweet image thou did ' st trembling bring From thy deep heart , thus palpably inspir ed !

    Those fair , angelic locks , like saffron pale , Hang all neglected down her gentle cheek , Where tears divine have burn'd , and left their stains . Those dove-like eyes that upward gaze , and beam With sensibility and soul intense ,

    Are fix d entranc d with vision of some Form Which ever lives in her full bosom ' s shrine , And glows with intermittent rapture there ! Her passion an immortal bourne aspires , Yet bears enough of earthliness to claim A human sympathy— -a love profound As that which thus absorbs her heart , and steeps Her present life in deep eternity . ¦ ... ...

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/49/