The modifications of sound, which may be productive of the sublime, are almost infinite.

Those I have mentioned are only a few instances to show on what principles they are all built.
SECTION XXI.
SMELL AND TASTE .-- BITTERS AND STENCHES.
_Smells_ and _tastes_ have some share too in ideas of greatness; but it is a small one, weak in its nature, and confined in its operations.

I shall only observe that no smells or tastes can produce a grand sensation, except excessive bitters, and intolerable stenches.

It is true that these affections of the smell and taste, when they are in their full force, and lean directly upon the sensory, are simply painful, and accompanied with no sort of delight; but when they are moderated, as in a description or narrative, they become sources of the sublime, as genuine as any other, and upon the very same principle of a moderated pain.

"A cup of bitterness"; "to drain the bitter cup of fortune"; "the bitter apples of Sodom"; these are all ideas suitable to a sublime description.