Themes -- The Sublime
Sublime: a crucial term in Enlightenment aesthetics, in contrast to the
beautiful
; frequently invoked throughout the novel.
Contexts -- Romanticism
Contexts -- The Sublime
Introduction 10
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("Frightful must it be") [1831 only]
Letter 4.7
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("Beauties of nature")
1.1.9
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("Blasted stump")
1.3.5
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("Eight feet in height")
1.4.1
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("Beautiful!")
1.5.3
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("Our placid home, and our contented hearts") [1831 only]
1.6.6
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("Lightnings")
2.1.4
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("Immense mountains and precipices")
2.2.1
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("The awful and majestic in nature")
2.2.3
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("Sea of ice")
2.2.3
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("Sight tremendous and abhorred")
2.2.6
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("Not only you and your family")
2.2.7
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("Thus I relieve thee")
2.3.4
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("Appearance, different from any I had ever before seen")
2.3.7
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("Beautiful")
2.7.4
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("My form is a filthy type of your's")
2.7.10
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("Safie ... cottage")
2.8.1
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("I was like a wild beast")
2.8.4
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("A kind of insanity")
2.9.2
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("The human senses are insurmountable barriers")
2.9.6
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("A scene of wonderful solemnity")
3.1.7
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("A soul more in harmony with man")
3.2.3
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("Beautiful in nature . . . sublime . . . of man")
3.2.3
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("I am a blasted tree")
3.2.7
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("I thought of Switzerland ... appalling landscape")
3.7.7
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("I, the native of a genial and sunny climate")
3.7.7
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("The ground sea")
Walton 5
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("September 2d")
