e_, l. 230. Objects of taste
have been generally divided into the beautiful, the sublime,
and the new; and lately to these have been added the
picturesque. The beautiful so well explained in Hogarth's
analysis of beauty, consists of curved lines and smooth
surfaces, as expressed in the preceding note; any object
larger than usual, as a very large temple or a very large
mountain, gives us the idea of sublimity; with which is often
confounded the terrific, and the melancholic: what is now
termed picturesque includes objects, which are principally
neither sublime nor beautiful, but which by their variety and
intricacy joined with a due degree of regularity or
uniformity convey to the mind an agreeable sentiment of
novelty. Many other agreeable sentiments may be excited by
visible objects, thus to the sublime and beautiful may be
added the terrific, tragic, melancholic, artless, &c. while
novelty superinduces a charm upon them all. See Additional
Note XIII.]

"Where mouldering columns mark the lingering wreck
Of Thebes, Palmyra, Babylon, Balbec;
The prostrate obelisk, or shatter'd dome,
Uprooted pedestal, and yawning tomb,
On loitering steps reflective TASTE surveys
With folded arms and sympathetic gaze;
Charm'd with poetic Melancholy treads
O'er ruin'd towns and desolated meads;
Or rides sublime on Time's expanded wings,
And views the fate of ever-changing things. 240

[Footnote: _Poetic melancholy treads_, l. 237. The pleasure
arising from the contemplation of the ruins of ancient
grandeur or of ancient happiness, and here termed poetic
melancholy, arises from a combination of the painful idea of
sorrow with the pleasurable idea of the grandeur or happiness
of past times; and becomes very interesting to us by fixing
our attention more strongly on that grandeur and happiness,
as the passion of Pity mentioned in the succeeding note is a
combination of the painful idea of sorrow with the
pleasurable one of beauty, or of virtue.]

"When Beauty's streaming eyes her woes express,
Or Virtue braves unmerited distress;
Love sighs in sympathy, with pain combined,
And new-born Pity charms the kindred mind;
The enamour'd Sorrow every