A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

by George Saintsbury

[308]. P. 274.

[309]. “I must take pleasure in the thing represented before I can take pleasure in the representation,” v. sup., vol. i. [p. 381], infra on Peacock himself.

[310]. Essay on Tragedy, p. 243.

[311]. I may be excused for referring to the parabasis at the beginning of the chapter, all the more that the text above was written considerably earlier than that digression.

[312]. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste: 1756. I use the Bohn edition of the Works, vol. i. pp. 49-181.

[313]. Op. cit., p. 175 sq. But Burke does not seem to have reached the larger and deeper views of Lessing on this subject.

[314]. See vol. ii. p. 485 sq.

[315]. Of this in turn Blair was perhaps thinking when he wrote the unlucky passage quoted in the last volume.

[316]. Part III. § iv.

[317]. Vol. ii. p. 417 sq.