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Show 90 Additional Notes. too o-larino· or tawdry. These gradations and contrasts of colour have0 been °practically employed both by the painters of landscape, and by the planters of ornamental gardens; though the theory of this part of the pleasure deri vecl from visible objects was not explained before the publication of the paper on ocular spectra above mentioned; which is reprinted at the end of the first part of Zoonomia, and has thrown great light on the actions of the nerves of sen~ in consequence of the stimulus of external bodies IV. Association of agreeable sentiments with 'Oisible o!ljects. Besides the pleasure experienced simply by the perception of visible objects, it has been already shown, that there is an additional pleasure arising from the inspection of those, which possess novelty, or some degree of it; a second additional pleasure from those, which possess in some degree a repetition of their parts; and a third from those, which possess a succession of particular colours, which either contrast or slide into each other, and which we have termed melody of colours. We now step forward to the fourth source of the pleasures arising from the contemplation of visible objects besides that simply of perception, which consists in our previous association of some agreeable sentiment with certain forms or combinations of them. These four kind of pleasure singly or in combination constitute what is generally under tood by the word Taste in respect to the vi ible world; and by parity of reasoning it is probable, that the pleasurable ideas received by the other senses, or which are associated with language, may be traced to similar sources. It has been shown by Bishop Berkeley in his ingenious essay on vision, that the eye only acquaints us with the perception of light and colours; and that our idea of the solidity of the bodies, whi.ch reflect them, is learnt by the organ of tpuch: he therefore calls our vision the la 1guage of touch, observing that certain gradations of the shades of colour, by our previou experience of havin()' examined similar bodies by our hand or lip , suggest our ideas of :olidity, and .Analysis if Taste. 91 of the forms of so lid bodies. a w 1 . . . ' len we VIew a tree, It would other WISe a.ppear to liS ~ fla~ green surface, but by association of ideas wknow It to be a cyltndncal stem with round branclles T11r· . . e f tl ' · 1 • • s assoc1atwn o le Ic cas acquir.e d by the sense of t one1 1 WI' th t 11 ose of v.. 1s10n we do not allude to m the following observations but to tll ' bl t · 'b · ' e agreea e rams or tn cs of rdeas and sentiments connected with certa· I . l of vi ible object . 111 unc s Sentiment of Beauty. l Oftl~cse catenations of sentiments with visible oLjects, tbe first i t lC ent11nent of Beauty or Loveliness· which 1 ' . )· . , . . . . ' 8 su gges t ed by easy- ~owmg cu1 \ atu1 es ot surface, WJth smootlme s; as is so well illustrated m l\1r. Burke's Essay on the Sublime and Beaut'f 1 1 · M If , . • 1 u , anc 1n r. a-garth s analys1 of Beauty· a new edition of ,vh1'ch · 1 d . ' IS muc 1 wante separate from l11s other works. The sentiment of Beauty appears to be attached from our cradles to the easy curvatures of lines, and smooth surfaces of visible objects, and to ha~e been de.rivcd from the form of the female bosom; as spoken of 111 Zoonomra, Vol. I. Section X VI. on Instinct. Sentimental love, as distinguished from the animal passion of that name, with which it is frequently accompanied, consists in the desire or sensation of beholding, ern bracing, and saluting, a beautiful object. The characteristic of beauty therefore is that it is the object of love; and though many other objects are in common language called beautiful, yet they arc onJy called so metaphorically, and ought to be termed agreeable. A Grecian temple may give us the pleasurable idea of sublimity; a Gothic temple may give us the pleasurable idea of variety; and. a modern house the pleasurable idea ~futility; music and poetry may inspire our love by association of ideas; but none of these, except metaphorically, can be termed beautiful; as we have no wish to embrace or salute them. Our perception of beauty consists in our recognition by the sense of vision of those objects, first which have before inspired our love by |