| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The pleasure which we take in beauty and sublimity is a pleasure that is bound up with our desire, and desire is the fundamental form of human consciousness; the emotions of pity, fear, sympathy, exultation, and indignation are all bound up with desire, so the poet who moves these emotions stirs the soul at its depth, and affords his reader the most profound sort of pleasure which the art can affo
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