The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

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THOMAS PAINE-Theological Works.
The Age of Reason. Pt. II.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

m. PASCAL Thoughts. Ch. VIII. 29.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,

They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
n. GEORGE PEELE-Cupid's Curse; From
the Arraignment of Paris.

Revolutions are not made; they come. WENDELL PHILLIPS-Speech. Public Opinion, Jan. 28, 1852.

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Revolutions never go backward.

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WENDELL PHILLIPS-Speech.

Progress, Feb. 17, 1861. Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Pt. II. Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,

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Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.

T. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Pt. II. See dying vegetables life sustain,

See life dissolving vegetate again;
All forms that perish other forms supply;
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die.)
8. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 15.
Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn.
t. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. 3. L. 109.

As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race.
SCOTT-Rokeby. Canto VI. St. 2.

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