Sublime

5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

She sits as a monument of the hopelessness and helplessness of reason in the face of this romantic and unreasonable world.

‘You mean that he appears silly.’ ‘No, no,’ said Dorothea, recollecting herself, and laying her hand on her sister’s a moment, ‘but he does not talk equally well on all subjects.’ ‘I should think none but disagreeable people do,’ said Celia, in her usual purring way. ‘They must be very dreadful to live with. Only think! at breakfast, and always.’

‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’

You think of a remote man merely as a man; that is, you think of him in the right way.