Themes -- The Beautiful
The Beautiful: as an Enlightenment category of aesthetics, invoked in
conjunction with or opposition to the sublime.
- Letter 4.7 and note ("Beauties of nature")
- 1.2.5 and note ("Little squat man")
- 1.4.1 and note ("Beautiful!")
- 1.5.3 and note ("Our placid home, and
our contented hearts") [1831 only]
- 2.1.4 and note ("Immense mountains and
precipices")
- 2.3.7 and note ("Beautiful")
- 2.4.4 and note ("The first little
white flower")
- 2.4.5 and note ("When I viewed myself
in a transparent pool")
- 2.5.1 and note ("I beheld a countenance
of angelic beauty")
- 2.5.2 and note ("I thought him as
beautiful as the stranger")
- 2.8.6 and note ("Soft tears")
- 2.8.10 and note ("Disgust and
affright")
- 3.1.7 and note ("A soul more in harmony
with man")
- 3.2.3 and note ("Beautiful in nature ... sublime
... of man")
- 3.5.1 and note ("Even to the most
repulsive among them") [1831 only]
- 3.7.7 and note ("I, the native of a
genial and sunny climate")
- Walton 12 and note ("I shut my eyes
involuntarily")
