Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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the more fublime will be their effedts.
The mofl: favage rocks, precipices, and ca-
tarad:s, as they keep their ftations, are only
awful; but fhould an earthquake fhake
their foundations, and open a new gulph
beneath the cataraft,—he, who removed
from immediate danger, could dare at fuch
a moment, to gaze on fuch a fpeffacle,
would furely have fenfations of a much
higher kind, than thofe which were im-
preffed upon him when all was flill and
unmoved.

fublimity, is a curious, but not an eafy fubjeft of difcuffion;
certain it is, that we never fympathize with what is mean
and cowardly, and that the effedt of the fublime (how-
ever produced) muft in all cafes be that of exalting the
mind of the reader, or fpedftator. That effedt Longinus
has defcribed with equal juftnefs and energy.

CH AP.