All this is accompanied with an inward sense of melting and languor.

These appearances are always proportioned to the degree of beauty in the object, and of sensibility in the observer.

And this gradation from the highest pitch of beauty and sensibility, even to the lowest of mediocrity and indifference, and their correspondent effects, ought to be kept in view, else this description will seem exaggerated, which it certainly is not.

But from this description it is almost impossible not to conclude that beauty acts by relaxing the solids of the whole system.

There are all the appearances of such a relaxation; and a relaxation somewhat below the natural tone seems to me to be the cause of all positive pleasure.