The  ocean,  I  affirm,  wants  not  the  accessaries  of
any  thing  human  to  make  it  SUBLIME,  and  there-
fore poeticaL  It  is  poetical,  though  not  equally  pic-
turesque or  beautiful,  with  or  without  them. The
ideas  it  excites  of  Almighty  power  are  those  of
sublimity,  the  highest  poetical  sublimity,  which
proudly  rejects  any  associations  or  accessaries  of
human  art,  or  of  human  kind,  to  make  it  more
so. "  The  deep  uttereth  his  voice"  is  one  of  the
\  f  most  sublime  of  the  many  sublime  passages,  relating
to  it  in  the  scriptures. We  have  no  occasion  to
make  it  more  poetical  to  say,  "  there  go  the


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"  ships ;"  but  the  ship,  moving  beautiful  ttf
the  sight,  and  seeming,  as  it  were,  a  creature1
of  the  vast  element,  and  made  doubly  interest'
ing,  as  an  object  of  beauty,  by  those  accessaries
of  nature,  without  which  it  is  nothing;  a  ship
so  seen  adds  to  the  picture  of  poetical  beauty,
but  not  to  the  more  awful  ideas  of  SUBLIMITY,
which  are  far  more  poetical. 