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Show suggeste serve an the difference between the obthe spectacle,-betwee ma and nature. Hence arises a pleasure mixe with awe; I may say, a low degree of th sublime is felt from the fact, probably, tha man is hereby apprized, that, whilst th world is a spectacle, something in himsel is stable 2. In a higher manner, the poet communi cates the same pleasure. By a few stroke he delineates, as on air, the sun, the mountain, the camp, the city, the hero, th maiden, not different from what we kno them, but only lifted from the ground an afloat before the eye » He unfixes th lan an around th th sea make the revolv axis of his primary thought and disposes them anew. Possessed himself by a heroic passion, he uses matter a symbols of it. The sensua ma conform thoughts to things; the poet conforms thing to his thoughts. The one esteems nature a rooted and fast; the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon. To him, the re fractory world is ductile and flexible; h invests dust and stones with humanity, makes them the words of the Reason. Th imagination may be defined to be, the us 6 |