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Thus far one of its votaries: and all that he vaunts to have acquired by this mysterious faculty of enthusiasm is the having rendered it "at length perfectly subduable."

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac