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“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.”
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- Source:
- Age of Reason. Part ii. note.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8764bdd4aadb35a0f31e68ecff2216d1eea20a509e9328fbca3f8c501f5b05d6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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