The spring is the pleasantest of the seasons; and the young of most animals, though far from being completely fashioned, afford a more agreeable sensation than the full-grown; because the imagination is entertained with the promise of something more, and does not acquiesce in the present object of the sense.

In unfinished sketches of drawing, I have often seen something which pleased me beyond the best finishing; and this I believe proceeds from the cause I have just now assigned.
SECTION XII.
DIFFICULTY.
Another source of greatness is _difficulty_.[21] When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.
Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work.

Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.
SECTION XIII.
MAGNIFICENCE.
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime.

A great profusion of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is _magnificent_.
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered.