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There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Beauty, Sadness, Elements
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.