Sublimity

Over the past week I read over three hundred pages of eighteenth century writing on the sublime. It was actually quite fascinating...I was writing a paper explaining how Percy Shelley managed to say that Satan was a hero in Paradise Lost, and it had everything to do with the sublime. It also make me want to read more of Edmund Burke. He seems like a very interesting character.

The reason I am blogging about this, however, is to share two very interesting quotes.

1: "Nature hath rendered passions, wheresoever strongly marked, catching"
2: "To be remarkable for nothing is not to be at all; and less eligible than to be remarkably a blockhead"

Maybe I'm too tired, but I thought these were both very funny.