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but may be found in the fourth book of Paradife Loft. Several 

 paffions are moved in that pathetic addrefs ; yet if we attend 

 carefully to fuch parts of it as are the pure and unmixed 

 expreffions of grief, I think the emotions excited have very 

 little analogy to the fublime. However grand and terrible the 

 Being, and of courfe well adapted to raife awful and fublime 

 ideas, we naturally foften into pity j his grief degrades him from 

 the loftinefs of his pride, and places him in fome fort upon our 

 own level ; and we fo far fympathize with him, as for fome 

 moments to forget his infernal charader. 



The compaffion of our Lord over Jerufalem muft be acknow- 

 ledged to be truly fublime :— « O Jerufalem, Jerufalem, which 

 " killefl the prophets, and ftoneft them that are fent unto thee, 

 " how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a 

 " hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would 

 " not [" And in another place the expreflion of his pity is no 

 lefs fublime : — «' And when he was come near, he beheld the 

 " city, and wept over it, faying. If thou hadft known, even 

 " thou, at leaft in this thy day, the things which belong unto 



thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes." Such 

 exceptions, however, being entirely out of the ordinary courfe 

 of events, and inapplicable to any general principles, by no 

 means invalidate, but feem rather to confirm the theory. 



I MUST beg leave to recur here to an obfervation which I 

 had occafion to make fome time ago, refpefling the exceffes of 

 the paffion of fear. I would there be underftood to mean 

 fuch exceffes as the mind falls into without difplaying any 

 reafonable conflid, and which betray rather imbecillity than 



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