---- He doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs. _Julius Cæsar, act I. sc. 3._ _Cleopatra._ I dreamt there was an Emp’ror Antony; Oh such another sleep, that I might see But such another man! His face was as the heav’ns: and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted The little O o’ th’ earth. His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear’d arm Crested the world. _Antony and Cleopatra, act 5. sc. 3._ ---- Majesty Dies not alone, but, like a gulf, doth draw What’s near it with it. It’s a massy wheel Fixt on the summit of the highest mount; To whose huge spokes, ten thousand lesser things Are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boist’rous ruin. _Hamlet, act 3. sc. 8._ The poets have also made good use of the emotion produced by the elevated situation of an object. Quod si me lyricis varibus inferes, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice. _Horace, Carm. l. 1. ode 1._ Oh thou! the earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up, To reach at victory above my head. _Richard II. act 1. sc. 4._ Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne. _Richard II. act 5. sc. 2._ _Anthony._ Why was I rais’d the meteor of the world, Hung in the skies and blazing as I travell’d, Till all my fires were spent; and then cast downward To be trod out by Cæsar? _Dryden, All for love, act 1._ Though the quality of magnitude produceth a pleasant emotion, we must not conclude that the opposite quality of littleness produceth a painful emotion. It would be unhappy for man, were an object disagreeable from its being of a small size merely, when he is surrounded with so many objects of that kind. The same observation is applicable to elevation of place. A body placed high is agreeable; but the same body placed low, is not by that circumstance rendered disagreeable. Littleness, and lowness of place, are precisely similar in the following particular, that they neither give pleasure nor pain. And in this may visibly be discovered peculiar attention in fitting the internal constitution of man to his external circumstances. Were littleness, and lowness of place agreeable, greatness and elevation could not be so. Were littleness, and lowness of place disagreeable, they would occasion uninterrupted uneasiness.