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lions, that of Venus's Cestus. Juno, how- 

 ever beautiful, had no captivating charms, 

 till she had put on the magic girdle; in 

 other words, till she had exchanged her 

 stately dignity, for playfulness and co- 

 quetry. 



According to Mr. Burke*, the passion 

 caused by the great and sublime in nature, 

 when those causes operate most powerfully, 

 is astonishment; and astonishment is that 

 state of the soul, in which all its motions 

 are suspended with some degree of horror: 

 the sublime also, being founded on ideas 

 of pain and terror, like them operates by 

 stretching the fibres beyond their natural 

 tone. The passion excited by beauty, is 

 love and complacency; it acts by relaxing 

 the fibres somewhat below their natural 

 tone, and this is accompanied by an in- 

 ward sense of melting and languor. I 

 have heard this part of Mr. Burke's book 

 criticize^, on a supposition that pleasure 

 is more generally produced from the fibres 



* Sublime and Beautiful, Part II, Sect, 1, . 



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