"The tossing of the sea remains after the storm; and when this remain of horror has entirely subsided, all the passion, which the accident raised, subsides along with it; and the mind returns to its usual state of indifference"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
18 entries in the ESTC (1757, 1759, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1782, 1787, 1792, 1793, 1796, 1798).<br>
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See <u></u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42248">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807802.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Edmund Burke, <u>On the Sublime and Beautiful.</u> Vol. XXIV, Part 2. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909&ndash;14; <a href="www.bartleby.com/24/2/">Bartleby.com</a>, 2001. <br>
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Reading Edmund Burke, <u>A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful and Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings</u>, ed. David Wommersly (London: Penguin Classics, 1998).