"Now the imagination is the most extensive province of pleasure and pain, as it is the region of our fears and our hopes, and of all our passions that are connected with them; and whatever is calculated to affect the imagination with these commanding ideas, by force of any original natural impression, must have the same power pretty equally over all men."
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
18 entries in the ESTC (1757, 1759, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1782, 1787, 1792, 1793, 1796, 1798).<br>
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See <u></u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42248">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807802.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Edmund Burke, <u>On the Sublime and Beautiful.</u> Vol. XXIV, Part 2. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909&ndash;14; <a href="www.bartleby.com/24/2/">Bartleby.com</a>, 2001. <br>
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Reading Edmund Burke, <u>A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful and Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings</u>, ed. David Wommersly (London: Penguin Classics, 1998).