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Longinus: On the Sublime
(1st. cent a.d.)
"...the sublime not only persuades, but even
throws an audience into transport."
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Milton: Paradise Lost
(1667)
"...and till then who knew / The force of those
dire arms?"
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Burke: A philosophical
enquiry... (1759)
"The passion caused by the great and sublime
in nature... is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state
of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some
degree of horror."
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Blake: America, A Prophesy
(1793)
"The times are ended; shadows pass the morning
gins to break..."
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Radcliffe: The Italian
(1797)
"'If I am condemned to misery, surely I could
endure it with more fortitude in scenes like these, than amidst
the tamer landscapes of nature!'"
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Wordsworth: The Prelude
(1805-1850)
"...the soul, / Remembering how she felt, but
what she felt/ Remembering not, retains an obscure sense / Of
possible sublimity..."
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Coleridge: Christabel
(1798-1816)
"But when the lady passed, there came/ A tongue
of light, a fit of flame... "
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DeQuincey: Confessions
of an English Opium Eater (1821)
"...insufferable splendour that fretted my heart."
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| Bronte: Wuthering Heights
(1847)
"Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" |
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