The Sublime and the Beautiful
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"The Sublime and the Beautiful" is an unfinished essay on the sublime by William Wordsworth.
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- Power awakens the sublime either when it rouses us to a sympathetic energy & calls upon the mind to grasp at something towards which it can make approaches but which it is incapable of attaining -- yet so that it participates force which is acting upon it; or 2dly, by producing a humiliation or prostration of the mind before some external agency which it presumes not to make an effort to participate, but is absorbed in the contemplation of the might in the external power, &, as far as it has any consciousness of itself, its grandeur subsists in the naked fact of being conscious of external Power at once awful & immeasurable. (354)
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