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Part L EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS
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The emotions railed by music independent of
words, must be all of this nature : courage roused
by martial music performed upon instruments
without a voice , cannot be directed to any object ;
nor can grief or pity railed by melancholy music
of the same kind have an object.
For another example, let us figure some grand
and heroic action , highly agreeable to the spedla-
tor: besicle veneration for the author, the spec-
tator feels in himself an unusual dignity of charac-
ter , which disposeth him to great and noble ac-
tions: and herein chiessy consists the extreme de-
light every one hath in the histories of conquerors
and heroes.
This Angular feeling , which may be termed
the Jympathetic emotion of virtue , resembles ,
in one respecl, the well-known appetites that
lead to the propagation and preservation of the
species. The appetites of hunger, thirst, and
animal love, arise in the mind before they are
directed to anv objess ; and in no case whatever
is the mind more selicitous fora proper objeil,
than when under the influence of any of these ap»
petites.
The seeling I have endeavoured to unfold, may
well be termed the sympathetic emotion of vir-
tue \ for it is raised in a speilator, orinareader,
by virtuous atflions of every kind, and by no
other sort. When we contemplate a virtuous ac-
tion , which sails not to prompt our love for the
63
The emotions railed by music independent of
words, must be all of this nature : courage roused
by martial music performed upon instruments
without a voice , cannot be directed to any object ;
nor can grief or pity railed by melancholy music
of the same kind have an object.
For another example, let us figure some grand
and heroic action , highly agreeable to the spedla-
tor: besicle veneration for the author, the spec-
tator feels in himself an unusual dignity of charac-
ter , which disposeth him to great and noble ac-
tions: and herein chiessy consists the extreme de-
light every one hath in the histories of conquerors
and heroes.
This Angular feeling , which may be termed
the Jympathetic emotion of virtue , resembles ,
in one respecl, the well-known appetites that
lead to the propagation and preservation of the
species. The appetites of hunger, thirst, and
animal love, arise in the mind before they are
directed to anv objess ; and in no case whatever
is the mind more selicitous fora proper objeil,
than when under the influence of any of these ap»
petites.
The seeling I have endeavoured to unfold, may
well be termed the sympathetic emotion of vir-
tue \ for it is raised in a speilator, orinareader,
by virtuous atflions of every kind, and by no
other sort. When we contemplate a virtuous ac-
tion , which sails not to prompt our love for the