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When a bald head is well plastered and floured, 

 and the boundary of the forehead distinctly marked 

 in pomatum and powder, it has as little preten- 

 sion to picturesqueness as to beauty. 



P.04. 1.20. That the sublime in poetry is founded on 

 the terrible, seems to be taken for granted by 

 Longinus; and probably on the authority of 

 Aristotle. That great father of criticism has 

 indeed in his poetics dwelt much less on 

 epic poetry, in which perhaps the highest 

 specimens of the sublime are to be found, than 

 on tragedy : we cannot, however, suppose 

 him to have been ignorant that sublimity is 

 one striking character of the tragic muse; and 

 as he has stated terror and pity to be the two 

 principal means by which she produces her 

 effects, we can hardly doubt which of them, 

 she would employ, when she meant to produce 

 sublimity. In our own language we often dis- 

 tinguish those two great sources of human 

 emotion which Aristotle calls to QoGepov, xou to 

 tXtsivov, or the terrible, and the pathetic, by the 

 sublime, and the pathetic : whether he or Lon- 

 ginus, according to the established idiom, 

 could have used to vfyyXov in the same sense, 

 those who are critics in the language may be 

 able to determine; if they could not, it seems 

 by no means improbable that they should have 

 substituted the most efficient cause, for the 

 character itself. In speaking of writers who 

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