Sublimity

That the ass, which in its very degradation still retains an under-power of sublimity, [Footnote: '_An under-power of sublimity_.' ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

The sublimity is so overpowering as naturally to prompt the exclamation that if the divine steeds were to leap thus twice in succession they would pass beyond the confines of the world. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

This modern form of sublimity is more complex than mere technophobia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The very sublimity is the cause of the difficulty of the style, and of the presence of peculiar expressions occurring, not found elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (1871)

In this volume religious sublimity is clothed in childlike simplicity. ❋ Unknown (1831)

Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth [14] a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled. ❋ Unknown (1792)

The chief characteristic of Milton's poetry is its sublimity, which is the natural outcome of the magnificence of his conceptions and of his own pure imaginative genius. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

That sublimity, which is one manifestation of beauty, is of the spirit, and by the spirit it must be apprehended. ❋ Carleton Eldredge Noyes (1911)

Never before had I guessed what beauty made sublime could be -- and yet, the sublimity was a dark one -- the glory was not all of heaven -- though none the less was it glorious. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Up to this time the moral atmosphere of the room had by no means attained the level reached by Leigh and Emmet alone, not only because of the restless presence of Cobbens, which refused to harmonise with the idea of sublimity, but also because, in any such gathering, the tendency is downward toward the plane of the most frivolous and common-place person present. ❋ Herbert M��ller Hopkins (1890)

It is also a great fact, as regards a due impression of obligation to God, and of what is conferred in it, that it raises and tones the spiritual emotions of obedience and, into a key of sublimity, which is the completeness of their joy. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)

Let us not then remain in the lowest ground, where the crowds are bustling, but aim at the roof of the house, that is, the sublimity of the Holy ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

And this, by their disciples, is called the sublimity of speculation! ❋ Walter Savage Landor (1819)

The very sense of strength which the breeze bears, the limitless deep green of the unmeasured seas, the great arch of the zenith, the clear view of the sun's march, the purity and the stillness and the mastery of it all, the consciousness of the puny power of man, the mind message recalling the sublimity and the awe of the unseen Power beyond -- all these things impress you, move in you the deepest thoughts, turn you from the little estimates of self as Nature only can in the holiest of her moods, which are sought yet never found in the cities. ❋ Max Pemberton (1906)

The beautiful so well explained in Hogarth's analysis of beauty, consists of curved lines and smooth surfaces, as expressed in the preceding note; any object larger than usual, as a very large temple or a very large mountain, gives us the idea of sublimity; with which is often confounded the terrific, and the melancholic: what is now termed picturesque includes objects, which are principally neither sublime nor beautiful, but which by their variety and intricacy joined with a due degree of regularity or uniformity convey to the mind an agreeable sentiment of novelty. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

For the latter is characterised by sublimity which is for the most part rugged, Cicero by profusion. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Altogether, there had been a kind of sublimity from the first about the way the family had taken that ‘affair.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)