There is some criticism of Burke's Philosophical Enquiry by the younger Ruskin; the writer is a man of 'less accurate thought' in his use of the word 'imitation' ( MP I:xvi). Again in Modern Painters II he is criticised for his observations on proportion ( Works, 4.108). However by 1883 Ruskin adds an additional note to Modern Painters II, describing the Enquiry as deserving 'most careful and reverent reading' ( Works, 4.109).
It is clear that Burke 's division of the aesthetic into the sublime and the beautiful presented problems for Ruskin, as evidenced by his brief chapter 'Of the Sublime' ( MP I:40), since for Ruskin all experience is potentially uplifting and so 'sublime' in the sense of its derivation from sublimis.