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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Longinian tradition | |
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| from Dionysius Longinus on the sublime (1743) | |
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| from Remarks on a book entitled, Prince Arthur (1696) | |
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| from The advancement and reformation of modern poetry (1701) | |
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| from The grounds of criticism in poetry (1704) | |
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| from Essays upon several subjects (1716) | |
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| from A miscellany of ingenious thoughts (1721) | |
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| from An essay on the theory of painting (1725) | |
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| from Reflections on the nature and property of languages (London 1731) | |
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| from The works (1735) | |
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| from Lectures on poetry (1742) | |
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| Rhapsody to rhetoric | |
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| from The spectator, (1712-1714) | |
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| from A discourse on ancient and modern learning (1734) | |
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| from Characteristicks (1714) | |
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| from The works (1724) | |
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| from To David Fordyce, 18th June 1742 | |
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| from The pleasures of imagination (1744) | |
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| An essay on the sublime (1747) | |
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| from Observations on man (1749) | |
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| from Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews (1753/1787) | |
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| from A dictionary of the English language (1755) | |
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| from Conjectures on original composition (1759) | |
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| from The art of speaking (1761) | |
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| from A course of lectures on oratory and criticism (1777) | |
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| from An enquiry concerning the principles of taste (1785) | |
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| Irish Perspectives | |
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| from A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) | |
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| from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) | |
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| from Clio: or, a discourse on taste (1769) | |
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| The Aberdonian Enlightenment | |
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| from An enquiry into the life and writings of Homet (1735) | |
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| from Theodorus: a dialogue concerning the art of preaching (1752) | |
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| from An essay on taste (1759) | |
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| from An essay on original genius (1767) | |
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| from Essays on the intellectual powers of man (1785) | |
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| from Dissertations moral and critical (1783) | |
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| Edinburgh and Glasgow | |
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| from A treatise of human nature (1739-40) | |
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| from A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian (1763) | |
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| from Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres (1783) | |
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| from Elements of criticism (1765) | |
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| from Essays on philosophical subjects (1758/1795) | |
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| from The theory of moral sentiments (1759/1790) | |
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| from An essay on the history of civil society (1767) | |
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| From the Picturesque to the Political | |
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| from A dissertation on oriental gardening (1772) | |
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| from An essay on the picturesque (1794) | |
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| from A review of The landscape (1795) | |
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| from The history of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1783) | |
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| from Enquiry concerning political justice (1798) | |
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| from Reflections on the revolution in France (1790) | |
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| from A letter from the right honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord (1796) | |
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| from A vindication of the rights of man (1790) | |
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| from Letters written in France (1790) | |
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| from A tour in Switzerland (1798) | |
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| Sources and further reading | |