DifficultyANOTHER [1] source of greatness is Difficulty. When any work
seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea
is grand.
Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable;
but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on
other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work.
Nay, the
rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes
the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort
of effect, which is different enough from this. 1 |
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