1 cannot see the heavings or this prodigious bulk of 

 waters, even in a calm, without a very pleasing- astonish- 

 ment ; but when it is worked up in a tempest, so that the 

 horizon on every side is nothing but foaming billows and 

 floating mountains, it is impossible to describe the agree- 

 able horror that rises from such a prospect. A troubled 

 ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest 

 object that he can see in motion, and, consequently, 

 gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure 

 that can arise from greatness. 



Joseph Addison (from The Spectator). 



