"There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an undefinable and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. It may be that this feeling springs from a sense of unattained good, of a perfection of being quite at variance with the present, which the beautiful never fails to suggest."
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"Tennyson", in Thoughts On the Poets (New York: C. S. Francis & Co., 1846), p. 275
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (April 20, 1813 β December 17, 1871) was an American writer, essayist and critic.
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