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fol. 40v	'Of the Sublime'  (Pt I, Sn II, Ch III)     (3.129)
      
      
     
      
      
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     There is no sublimity in the agony of terror -  We do not feel
     it from the cry to the mountains fall on us -      but from
     the fearlessness of him who can - the darkling universe defy - to quench
10   his Immortality .
      
      
      
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fol. 41r	'Of the Sublime'  (Pt I, Sn II, Ch III)    (3.129)
      
      
      
     therefore all <g> dangers. and most powers. are in some degree sublime.  But
     It is not the <f>Fear . but the Contemplation of Death . which is sublime .  It is
     not the instinctive shudder and struggle of Self Preservation.  but the
     deliberate measurement of the Vast Doom   which is the real source of what
 5   is great in feeling.  It is not while we think - but while we defy -
     that we receive or convey the lighest conceptions of the Fate .
     <The sublimest w[?]>   <not by with> {There is <no> {little} sublimity in the agony of
     <despair> terror &} those who call to the mountains
     fall on us - and to the Hills Cover us . {it is rather in} but with those who stand
     <at the latter day upon the earth - expecting that in their flesh they
10   shall see God .>  who
     A little reflection will be sufficient to prove to any one - that so far from
     the feelings of self preservation being necessary to the sublime - their greatest
     action is totally destructive of it .  and that the<i>re are few feelings less partaking
     of its nature than those of a coward.  But the simple conception or idea
15   of greatness of suffering or destruction . is sublime - whether there be any
     connection of that idea with ourselves or not.  If we were placed beyond
     the reach of all peril or pain - the perception of these agencies in their
     influence on others would not be less sublime -  not because peril or pain
     are sublime in their own nature - but because they are essentially great.
20   they <destroy> render littleness of feeling - <render> or meanness of thought
     impossible - and

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