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Show CONTENTS. I Urania and the !\.fuse con verse]. Progress of the 1\Iind 49. II. The . Four sensorial powers of Irritation, Sensation, Volition, and Association 55. Some finer senses given to Brutes 93. And Armour 108. Finer Organ of Touch given to 1\r:[an 121. Whence clear ideas ?f Form 125. Vision is the Language of the Touch 131. l\fag1c Lantern 139. Surprise, Novelty, Curiosity 145. Passions, Vices 149. Philanthropy 159. Shrine of Virtue 160. III. Ideal Beauty from the Female Bosom 163. Eros the God of Sentimental Love 177. Young Dione idolized by Eros I o6. Third chain of Society 206. IV. Ideal Beauty from curved Lines 207. Taste for the Beautiful 222. Taste for the Sublime 223. For poetic l\1elancholy 231. For Tragedy 2 t 1. For artless Nature 247. The Genius of Taste 259. V. The Senses easily form and repeat ideas 269. Imitation from clear ideas 279. The Senses imitate each other 293. In dancing 295. In drawing naked Nymphs 279. In Architecture, as at St. Peter's at Rome 303. Mimickry 319. VI. Nat ural Language from imitation 335. Language of Quails. Cocks. Lions. Boxers 343. Pantomime Action 3.57. Verbal Language from Imitation and Association 363. Symbols of ideas 371. Gigantic form of Time 385. Wings of Hermes 391. VII. Recollection from clear ideas 395. Reason and Volition 401. Arts of the vVasp, Bee, Spider, Wren, Silk-Worm 411. Volition concerned about Means or Causes 435. J\tian distinguished by Language, by using Tools, labouring for Money, praying to the Deity 438. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil 445. VIII. Emotions from Imitation: 461. The Seraph; Sympathy 467. Christian Morality the great bond of Society 483-496. CANTO III. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. I. Now rose, adorn' d with Beauty's brightest hues, The graceful HIEROPHANT, and winged MusE; On ward they step around the stately piles, O'er porcelain floors, through Iaqueated ailes, Eye Nature's lofty and her lowly seats, Her gorgeous palaces, and green retreats, Pervad~ her labyrinths with unerring tread, And leave for future guests a guiding thread. First with fond gaze blue fields of air they s·weep, Or pierce the briny chambers of the deep; Earth's burning line, and icy poles explore, Her fertile surface, and her caves of ore; 10 |