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times a grand object; need I say how 

 much that grandeur is increased by the 

 violence of another element, and again, 

 by thunder and lightning ? Why are rocks 

 and precipices more sublime, when the 

 tide dashes at the foot of them, forbidding 

 all access, or cutting off all retreat, than 

 when we can with ease approach, or retire 

 from them? How is it that Shakspeare 

 has heightened the sublimity of Dover 

 Cliff, so much beyond what the real scene 

 exhibits? by terror; he has placed terror 

 above on the brink of the abyss; in the 

 middle where 



" Half way down 

 " Hangs one who gathers samphire ; dreadful trade." 



And even on the beach below, drawing 

 an idea of terror from the comparative 

 deficiency of one sense : 



The murmuring surge 

 That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes 

 Cannot be heard so high ; I'll look no more 

 Lest my brain turn. 



The nearer any grand or terrible objects 

 in nature press upon the mind (provided 



