Pleasure, pleasures of seeing and hearing distinguished
from those of the other senses, i. 1. Pleasure of order,
i. 22.; of connexion, i. 22. Pleasures of taste, touch,
and smell, not termed emotions or passions, i. 29. Plea-
sure of a reverie, i. 84. 283. Pleasures refined and
gross, i. 101. Pleasure of a train of perceptions in cer-
tain circumstances, i. 282. Corporeal pleasure low, and
sometimes mean, i. 320. Pleasures of the eye and ear
never low or mean, i. 320. Pleasures of the under-
standing are high in point of dignity, i. 321. Custom
augments moderate pleasures, but diminishes those that
are intense, i. 374. Some pleasures felt internally, some
externally, ii. 464.
Poet, the chief talent of a poet who deals in the pathetic,
i. 385.
Poetical flights, in what state of mind they are most re-
lished, ii. 181.
Poetry, grandeur of manner in poetry, 210. How far
variety is proper, i. 291. Objects that strike terror have
a fine effect in it, ii. 324. Objects of horror ought to
be banished from it, ii. 325. Poetry has power over all
the human affections, ii. 384. The most successful in
describing objects of sight, ii. 463.
Polite behaviour, i. 102.
Polygon, regular, its beauty, i. 183.
Polysyllables, how far agreeable to the ear, ii. 6.; seldom
have place in the construction of English verse, ii. 108.
Pompey of Corneille censured, i. 426. 437. 440.
Poor, habit puts them on a level with the rich, i. 377.
Pope excels in the variety of his melody, ii. 125.; cen-
sured, ii. 223. 225. 307. His style compared with that
of Swift, ii. 312.
Posture, constrained posture disagreeable to the spectator,
i. 162.
Power of abstraction, ii. 476, 477. its use, ii. 475.
Prepositions explained, ii. 41.
Pride, how generated, i. 107. why it is perpetual, i. 110.;
incites us to ridicule the blunders and absurdities of
others, i. 311.; a pleasant passion, i. 311, 394.; consider-
ed with respect to dignity and meanness, i. 321.
external expressions or signs disagreeable, i. 394. ·
Primary and secondary qualities of matter, i. 187. Pri
mary and secondary relations, i. 302. note.
Principle of order, i. 20.; of morality, i. 34. 57. 313.; of
self-preservation, i. 73.; of selfishness, i. 166.; of bene-
volence, i. 166.; of punishment, i. 169. 314. Principle
that makes us fond of esteem, i. 173. 209.; of curiosity,
i. 233. 250.; of habit, i. 374. Principle that makes us
wish others to be of our opinion, ii. 440. Principle de-
fined, ii. 470.; sometimes so enlivened as to become an
emotion, i. 58. See Propensity.
Principles of the fine arts, i. 5.
Proceleusmaticus, ii. 160.
Prodigies find ready credit with the vulgar, i. 148.
Prologue of the ancient tragedy, ii. 367.
Pronunciation, rules for it, ii. 74. 84.; distinguished from
singing, ii. 83. Singing and pronouncing compared,
ii. 85.
Propensity sometimes so enlivened as to become an emo-
tion, i. 58. 106. ; opposed to affection, i. 111. Opinion
and belief influenced by it, i. 148. Propensity to justify
our passions and actions, i. 139. Propensity to punish
guilt and reward virtue, i. 169. Propensity to carry
along the good or bad properties of one subject to ano-
ther, i. 59. 158. 179. ii. 54. 57. 75. 99. 128. 238. 266.
Propensity to complete every work that is begun, and
to carry things to perfection, i. 263. ii. 426. Propen-
sity to communicate to others every thing that affects
us, i. 447. Propensity to place together things mutu-
ally connected, ii. 54. Propensity defined, ii. 470. See
Principle.
Properties transferred from one subject to another, i.
59. 158. 179. ii. 54. 57. 75. 99. 128. 238. 266.
Property, the affection man bears to his property, i. 65.
A secondary relation, i. 302. note.
Prophecy, those who believe in prophecies wish the ac-
complishment, i. 175.
Propriety, ch. 10. a secondary relation, i. 302. note; dis-
tinguished from congruity, i. 304.; distinguished from
proportion, i. 312. Propriety in buildings, ii. 417.
Proportion contributes to grandeur, i. 192.; distinguished
from propriety, i. 312. As to quantity coincides with
congruity, i. 312.; examined as applied to architecture,
ii. 411. Proportion defined, ii. 467.
Prose distinguished from verse, ii. 87.
Prospect, an unbounded prospect disagreeable, i. 264. note.
By what means a prospect may be improved, ii. 393.
Provoked Husband censured, ii. 354.
Punishment in the place where the crime was committed,
i. 268. Punishment of impropriety, i. 309.
Public games of the Greeks, i. 229.
Qualities, primary and secondary, i. 187. A quality can-
not be conceived independent of the subject to which it
belongs, ii. 44. Different qualities perceived by diffe-
rent senses, ii. 451. Communicated to related objects.
See Propensity.
Quantity with respect to melody, ii. 93. Quantity with
respect to English verse, ii. 106. False quantity, ii. 109.
Quintilian censured, ii. 232.
Quintus Curtius censured, i. 419.
Racine criticised, i. 456. Censured, i. 461.
Rape of the Lock characterized, i. 331. Its verse admi-
rable, ii. 92.
Reading, chief talent of a fine reader, i. 385. Plaintive
passions require a slow pronunciation, i. 414. note. Rules
for reading, ii. 82.; compared with singing, ii. 85.
Reality of external objects, i. 79.
Reason, reasons to justify a favourite opinion are always at
hand, and much relished, i. 140.
Recitative, ii. 89.
Refined pleasure, i. 100.
Regularity, not so essential in great objects as in small,
i. 193.; not in a small work so much as in one that is
extensive, i. 194. How far to be studied in architec-
ture, ii. 388. 406. 411. How far to be studied in a gar-
den, ii. 391. Regular line defined, ii. 466. Regular
figure defined, ii. 467. Regularity proper and figura-
tive, ii. 466.
Relations, i. 16. Have an influence in generating emo-
tions and passions, i. 59. Are the foundation of con-
gruity and propriety, i. 300. Primary and secondary
relations, i. 302. note. In what manner are relations
expressed in words, ii. 39. The effect that even the
slighter relations have on the mind, ii. 399.
Relative beauty, i. 178. ii. 399.
Remorse, anguish of remorse, i. 163.; its gratification, i.
170.; is not mean, i, 321.
Repartee, i. 358.
Repetitions, ii. 317.
Representation, its perfection lies in hiding itself and pro-
ducing an impression of reality, ii. 372.
Repulsive object, i. 166. Repulsive passions, i. 395.
Resemblance and dissimilitude, ch. 8. Resemblance in a
series of objects, ii. 12. The members of a sentence sig-
nifying a resemblance betwixt objects ought to resemble
each other, ii. 29. Resemblance betwixt sound and sig-
nification, ii. 73. 76. 78. No resemblance betwixt ob-
jects of different senses, ii. 76. Resembling causes may
produce effects that have no resemblance, and causes
that have no resemblance may produce resembling
effects, ii. 76. The faintest resemblance betwixt sound
and signification gives the greatest pleasure, ii. 82. Re-
semblance carried too far in some gardens, ii. 391. note.
Resentment explained, i. 75. Disagreeable in excess, i. 99.
Extended against relations of the offender, i. 143. Its
gratification, i. 169. When immoderate is silent, i. 448.
Rest neither agreeable nor disagreeable, i. 226. 462.
Revenge animates but doth not elevate the mind, i. 208.
Has no dignity in it, i. 321. When immoderate is silent,
i. 448.
Reverie, cause of the pleasure we have in it, i. 84. 283.
Rhyme, for what subjects it is proper, ii. 150. Melody of
rhyme, ii. 152.
Rhythmus defined, ii. 88.
Rich and poor put upon a level by habit, i, 377.
Riches, love of, corrupts the taste, ii. 447.
Ridicule, a gross pleasure, i. 102. Is losing ground in Eng-
land, i. 103. Emotion of ridicule, i. 248. Not concor-
dant with grandeur, i. 272. Ridicule, ch. 12. Whether
it be a test of truth, i. 340.
Ridiculous distinguished from risible, i. 247.
Right and wrong as to actions, i. 34.
Risible objects, ch, 7. Risible distinguished from ridicu-
lous, i. 247.
Room, its form, ii. 408.
Rubens censured, ii. 260.
Ruin ought not to be seen from a flower-parterre, ii. 389.
In what form it ought to be, ii. 398.
Sallust censured for want of connexion, i. 26.
Sapphic verse has a very agreeable modulation, ii. 89.
Savage knows little of social affection, i. 101.
Sculpture imitates nature, ii. 1. What emotions can be
raised by it, ii. 384.
Secchia Rapita characterized, i. 330.
Secondary qualities of matter, i. 187. Secondary relations,
i. 300. note.
Seeing, in seeing we feel no impression, ii. 454. Objects
of sight are all of them complex, ii. 461.
Self-deceit, i. 139. 437.
Selfish passions, i. 42. Are pleasant, i. 99.
Are pleasant, i. 99. Less refined
and less pleasant than the social, i. 101. The pain of
selfish passions more severe than of social passions, i. 102.
Inferior in dignity to the social, i. 324. A selfish emo-
tion arising from a social principle, i. 42. A selfish mo-
tive arising from a social principle, i. 43. note.
Selfishness promoted by luxury, ii. 446. and also by love
of riches, ii. 447.
Self-love, its prevalence accounted for, i. 45. In excess
disagreeable, i. 99. Not inconsistent with benevolence,
i. 167.
Semipause in an hexameter line, ii. 97. What semipauses
are found in an English heroic line, ii. 112.
Sensation defined, ii. 454. described, ii. 461.
Sense of order, i. 20. contributes to generate emotions, i. 63.
note, and passions, i. 68. Sense of right and wrong, i. 34.
The veracity of our senses, i. 79. ii. 457. note. Sense of
congruity or propriety, i. 300. of the dignity of human
nature, i. 318. ii. 442. Sense of ridicule, i. 340. Sense
by which we discover a passion from its external signs, i.
396. Sense of a common nature in every species of
beings, i. 97. ii. 438. Sense internal and external, ii.
451. In touching, tasting and smelling, we feel the im-
pression at the organ of sense, not in seeing and hear-
ing, i. 1. ii. 455.
Senses, whether active or passive, ii. 453.
Sentence, it detracts from neatness to vary the scene in the
same sentence, ii. 33. A sentence so arranged as to ex-
|