"The feeling of [the sublime] is sometimes accompanied with dread, or even melancholy, in some cases with tranquil admiration merely, and in others with a beauty spread over a sublime plan. The first I shall name the Dreadful or Terrific Sublime, the second the Noble, and the third the Magnificent."

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