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Updated: July 14, 2026

Now a sentimental melancholy inhaloes every ordinary object around us; and amid the meek abasht feelings of a pining anguish and remorse, suddenly starts up nauseous arrogance, vaunting the grandeur of a spoilt capricious heart. O what poor wretches our fellow creatures now seem to us in their commonplaceness, who yet all, as the patient children and drudges of mother earth, are better than we.

Ludwig Tieck - The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano: Tales from the German of Tieck