SECT. 1. Of Imitation. Is Mufic an Imitative Art? 113 2. How are the pleasures we derive from Mufic to be accounted for? 137 CHAP. II. Laughter feems to arife from the view of things incongruous united in the Jame affemblage: I. By Juxtapofition; II. As Cause and Effect; III. By Comparison founded on Similitude; or, IV. United fo as to exhibit an oppofition of Meannefs and Dignity. Page 318 III. Limitations of the preceding doctrine. Incongruity not Ludicrous, I. When cuftomary and common; nor, 11. When it excites any powerful emotion in the bebolder, as, 1.Moral Difapprobation, 2. Indignation or Difguft, 3. Pity; or, 4. Fear; III. Influence of Goodbreeding upon Laughter; IV. Of Similitudes, as connected with this Subject; V. Recapitulation. 384 IV. An attempt to account for the fuperiority of the moderns in Ludicrous Writing. 421 REMARKS on the Usefulness of CLAS SICAL LEARNING. 453 |