Sublime
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Here is a man tallied – he realizes here what he has in him, The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
Walt Whitman • The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
ennui
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
some daring rebel;
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
"I opened my eyes and found all about me luminous and glowing. It was the element of heaven that flowed around. Nothing but a fiery stream
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
His mind had never yet been filled with an absorbing passion; but it lay like a still twilight open to any wind, whether the low breath that wafts but odours, or the storm that bows the great trees till they strain and creak.
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Can Volume, Pillar, Pile, preserve thee great? Or must thou trust Tradition’s simple tongue, When Flattery sleeps with thee and History does thee wrong?
Lord Byron • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
He made no scruple to charge me with being in love;