tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post1684807652049975002..comments2024-03-28T09:46:24.020+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : On or about July 2016 human character changedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-37029959869330369442019-05-05T21:20:04.244+03:002019-05-05T21:20:04.244+03:00Can't wait for the 'Quotes' post... Ch...Can't wait for the 'Quotes' post... Check this out:<br /><br />The Sublime, wherever it occurs, consists in a certain loftiness and excellence of language, and that it is by this, and this only, that the greatest poets and prose-writers have gained eminence, and won themselves a lasting place in the Temple of Fame. A lofty passage does not convince the reason of the reader, but takes him out of himself. That which is admirable ever confounds our judgment, and eclipses that which is merely reasonable or agreeable. To believe or not is usually in our own power; but the Sublime, acting with an imperious and irresistible force, sways every reader whether he will or no. Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a sublime thought, if happily timed, illumines an entire subject with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of the orator in a moment of time. <br /><br />It is natural in us to feel our souls lifted up by the true Sublime, and, conceiving a sort of generous exultation, to be filled with joy and pride, as though we had ourselves originated the ideas which we read.<br /><br />Longinus<br />Treatise on the Sublime<br />http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17957/17957-h/17957-h.htmTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-10385028095824051802019-05-05T20:45:36.100+03:002019-05-05T20:45:36.100+03:00Yes. Yes. Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-39556451584337550472019-05-05T18:59:33.988+03:002019-05-05T18:59:33.988+03:00'This should be obvious, but it is not to most...'This should be obvious, but it is not to most clever people.'<br /><br />...too clever by half?Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.com