with awe, butwithout abject fear,) the more sublime will be their effects. The mostsavage rocks, precipices, and cataracts, as they keep their stations, areonly awful; but should an earthquake shake their foundations, andopen a new gulf beneath the cataract—he, who removed from imme-diate danger,… … CHAPTER V. Of the three characters, two only are in any degree subject to theimprover; to create the sublime is above our contracted powers, thoughwe may sometimes heighten, and at all times lower its effects by art.It is, therefore, on a proper attention to the beautiful and the pictu-resque, that…
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