On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part III

by Edmund Burke

• Chapter 1: Of Beauty
• Chapter 2: Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables
• Chapter 3: Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals
• Chapter 4: Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species
• Chapter 5: Proportion Further Considered
• Chapter 6: Fitness not the Cause of Beauty
• Chapter 7: The Real Effects of Fitness
• Chapter 8: The Recapitulation
• Chapter 9: Perfection not the Cause of Beauty
• Chapter 10: How Far the Idea of Beauty May be Applied to the Qualities of the Mind
• Chapter 11: How Far the Idea of Beauty May be Applied to Virtue
• Chapter 12: The Real Cause of Beauty
• Chapter 13: Beautiful Objects Small
• Chapter 14: Smoothness
• Chapter 15: Gradual Variation
• Chapter 16: Delicacy
• Chapter 17: Beauty in Colour
• Chapter 18: Recapitulation
• Chapter 19: The Physiognomy
• Chapter 20: The Eye
• Chapter 21: Ugliness
• Chapter 22: Grace
• Chapter 23: Elegance and Speciousness
• Chapter 24: The Beautiful in Feeling
• Chapter 25: The Beautiful in Sounds
• Chapter 26: Taste and Smell
• Chapter 27: The Sublime and Beautiful Compared