Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

The other three come partly from art, namely the proper construction of figures - these being of course of two kinds, figures of thought and figures of speech …

Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critick with a Poet's Fire. An ardent Judge, who Zealous in his Trust, With Warmth gives Sentence, y…

There are, one may say, some five most productive sources of the sublime in literature, the common groundwork, as it were, of all five being competence in spea…