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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1757
"We have on such occasions found, if I am not much mistaken, the temper of our minds in a tenor very remote from that which attends the presence of positive pleasure; we have found them in a state of much sobriety, impressed with a sense of awe, in a sort of tranquillity shadowed with horror"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)