Definitionn. nobility in thought or feeling or style
Last update: November 3, 2015
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They are written in the Doric dialect, with epic licences; the metre is dactylico-trochaic. Brief as they are, they show us what Longinus meant by calling Stesichorus "most like Homer"; they are full of epic grandeur, and have a stately sublimity that reminds us of Pindar. [Please select]
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This is great to sublimity. [Please select]
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While other men were painting daylight, he turned the day into night, which is one of the paths that sublimity travels through. [Please select]
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In Spain, this thought is arrayed in a sublimity which belongs to the sombre and passionate genius of the nation. [Please select]
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Michelangelo's statue teaches the highest lesson of religious faith,--the beauty of resigned sorrow and the sublimity of sacrificing love. [Please select]
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And even in fiction, the opponents of virtue, in order to be romantic, must have sublimity mingled with their vice. [Please select]
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It is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested. [Please select]
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Prepare yourselves next for the Grecian sublimity of the _ideal_ beast, from the cornice of your schools of design. [Please select]
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She is attired in the harmonious folds of a plain and ample garment and expresses supreme authority, the sublimity of divine love. [Please select]
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A conflagration at night, when viewed from a distance, always seems awful in its sublimity. [Please select]
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This uniformity of tone is occa-sionally adopted, and is fitted to express solemnity or sublimity of idea, and sometimes intensity of feeling. [Please select]
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