"He, whose feeling inclines to the melancholy, is not so named because he, deprived of the joys of life, grieves in dark moping melancholy, but because his feelings, if they were encreased beyond a certain degree, or by any cause received a false bent, would easier tend to melancholy than to another state. He has chiefly a feeling for the sublime."

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