"However we may be hurried away by the spectacle; whatever dominion the senses and imagination may usurp over the reason, there still lurks at the bottom a certain idea of falsehood in the whole of what we see"
Of Tragedy
At least 12 entries in ESTC (1757, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1768, 1770, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1784, 1793, 1800).<br>
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First published in <u>Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of the Passions. III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the Standard of Taste. By David Hume, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4011">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Past Masters and Online Library of Liberty. Reading <u>Essays, Moral, Political and Literary</u>, rev. ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987). The Liberty Fund editor, Eugene F. Miller, takes the 1777 edition of Hume's essays as his copy text. 