...curiosity; an effect which, though less splendid and powerful, has a more general influence. . . . Again, by its variety, its intricacy, its partial...with which astonishment chains up its faculties." Within this world where events are sublime or horrible, we find Emily St. Aubert, Udolpho's heroine....

...others. It is the coquetry of nature; it makes beauty more amusing, more varied, more playful, but also, "Less winning soft, less amiably mild." Again,...bonds with which astonishment chains up its faculties. * Majesty and love, says the poet who had most studied the art of love, never can dwell together; and...

...of the beautiful. [Uvedale] Price likens its effect to that of the mixed genre, such as tragicomedy: "by its variety, its intricacy, its partial concealments,...with which astonishment chains up its faculties." So, when Reynolds rejects the tyranny of the "rigid forms" of tragedy in his defense of tragicomedy,...

...passive and easily experienced. We must actively work at understanding the picturesque. The picturesque "excites that active curiosity which gives play to...bonds with which astonishment chains up its faculties" (1796-1798, 98), whereas "in a spot full of the softest beauties of nature," pleasure is "to be received,...

...others. It is the coquetry of nature; it makes beauty more amusing, more varied, more playful, but also, Less winning soft, less amiably mild. Again,...manners, it is not always easy to draw the exact line of separation: I think, however, we may conclude, that where an object, or a set of objects are without...

...liberties underwrites his attraction to an aesthetic characterized by naturalness and freedom of movement: "by its variety, its intricacy, its partial concealments,...bonds, with which astonishment chains up its faculties" (I, 89). The picturesque was to afford freedom from the bonds of the sublime, bonds that, because of...