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beini stimulated, than from their beino; re- 

 laxed. To me it appears, that Mr. Burke 

 is right with respect to that pleasure which 

 is the effect of beauty, or whatever has an 

 analogy to beauty, according to the prin- 

 ciples he has laid down. 



If we examine our feelings on a warm 

 genial day, in a spot full of the softest 

 beauties of nature, the fragrance of spring 

 breathing around us — pleasure then seems 

 to be our natural state; to be received, 

 not sought after; it is the happiness of ex- 

 isting to sensations of delight only ; we are 

 unwilling to move, almost to think, and 

 desire only to feel, to enjoy. In pur- 

 suing the same train of ideas, I may 

 add, that the effect of the picturesque is 

 curiosity; an effect, which, though less 

 splendid and powerful, has a more general 

 influence. Those who have felt the ex- 

 citement produced by the intricacies of 

 wild romantic mountainous scenes, can 

 tell how curiosity, while it prompts us to 

 scale every rocky promontory, to explore 

 every new recess, by its active agency 



