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, yet is always Just; Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws, And Is himself that great Sublime he draws.

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 …

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…