176. Colour affects or delights like sound. Scarlet or deep crimson rouses, determines, invigorates the eye, as the war-horn or the trumpet the ear; the flute soothes the ear, as pale celestial blue or rosy red the eye.
177. The colours of sublimity are negative or generic—such is the colouring of Michael Angelo.
178. The passions that sway features and limbs equally reside, fluctuate, flash and lower in colour.
179. The colours of pleasure and love are hues.
180. The colour of gravity, reverie, solemnity, approaches to twilight.