I've just discovered the joy of Google eBooks, now I'm no stranger to rummaging through the Internet Archive to see what incredible things are held in there, but it can often be difficult to find relevant articles, if you only have a vague idea of what you want to look for.
The eBookstore, is as you would imagine being from Google, considerably more polished and so, much easier to find things of relevance. It's here came across A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, a little extract of which may be found here;
So far then as Taste belongs to the imagination, its principle is the same in all men; there is no difference in the manner of their being affected, nor in the causes of the affection; but in the degree there is a difference, which arises from two causes principally; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility, or from a closer and longer attention to the object.
If thats whetted your appetite at all, you can find the full version here
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