Pierre, Or The Ambiguities - pg. 79

His burst of impatience against the sublime Italian, Dante, arising
from that poet being the one who, in a former time, had first opened to his
shuddering eyes the infinite cliffs and gulfs of human mystery and misery; --
though still more in the way of experimental vision, than of sensational
presentiment or experience (for as yet he had not seen so far and deep as Dante,
and therefore was entirely incompetent to meet the grim bard fairly on his
peculiar ground), this ignorant burst of his young impatience, -- also arising
from that half-contamptuous dislike, and sometimes self-loathing, with which,
either naturally feebele or undeveloped minds, regard those dark ravings of the
loftier poets, which are in eternal opposition to their own finespun, shallow
dreams of rapturous or prudential Youth; -- this rash, untutured burst of
Pierre's young impatience, seemed to have carried off with it, all the other
forms of his melancholy -- if melancholy it had been -- and left him now serene
again, and ready for any tranquil pleasantness the gods might have in store. For
his, indeed, was true Youth's temperament, -- summary with sadness, swift to
joyfulness, and long protracting, and detaining with that joyfulness, when once
it came fully night to him.