"They who have not taken these methods, if their Taste decides quickly, it is always uncertainly; and their quickness is owing to their presumption and rashness, and not to any sudden irradiation that in a moment dispels all darkness from their minds."
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).