"We have on such occasions found, if I am not much mistaken, the temper of our minds in a tenor very remote from that which attends the presence of positive pleasure; we have found them in a state of much sobriety, impressed with a sense of awe, in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horror"
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).