My translation of the poem runs thus: Seeking at least to be not all unfit For thy sublime and-boundless courtesy, My lowly thoughts at first were fain to try What they could yield for grace so infinite.

So fares it ever with things high and rare Wrought in the sweat of nature; heaven above Showers on their birth the blessings of her prime: Nor hath God deigned to show Himself elsewhere More clearly than in human forms sublime, Which, since they image Him, alone I love.

There are countless drawings for some great picture of the Crucifixion, which was never finished: exquisite in delicacy of touch, sublime in conception, dignified in breadth and grand repose of style.

It would be quite impossible to describe the beauty of style displayed in this group, or the sublime emotions expressed in those woe-stricken countenances.

He also adds that, internally, "the sublime concave" of this immense dome is the one redeeming feature of S. Peter's.

Then follows this magnificent piece of verse, in which the sincerest feelings of the pious heart are expressed with a sublime dignity: Now hath my life across a stormy sea, Like a frail bark, reached that wide fort where all Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall

It is easy enough for me, who have since lived among the sublimity of the Swiss and Italian lakes, to understand that there is nothing of a very sublime character, relatively considered, in any of the reaches of the Hudson; but it would be difficult to find a river that has so much which is exquisitely beautiful; and this, too, of a beauty which borders on the grand.

There is something very noble and conscientious, we will confess, in this plan of composition; but the misfortune is, that there are passages in all poems, that can neither be pathetic nor sublime; and that, on these occasions, a neglect of the embellishments of language is very apt to produce absolute meanness and insipidity.

It would be going too far, certainly, to maintain, that our modern poets have never succeeded in their persevering endeavours at elevation and emphasis; but it is a melancholy fact, that their successes bear but a small proportion to their miscarriages; and that the reader who has been promised an energetic sentiment, or sublime allusion, must often be contented with a very miserable substitute.

They are filled with horror and compassion at the sight of poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes, and brutifying their sublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremitting labour.

Yet, if there be an undefinable sadness in looking at the marred material of which so much more might have been made, there is a sublime hopefulness in the contemplation of material, bodily and mental, of which a great deal more and better will certainly yet be made.

There was the beautiful face, calm, satisfied, self-possessed, sublime, and with eyes looking far away.

It was the unique virtuoso born again, proudly displaying the ultimate sublime end of all those slow-moving exercises to which he had subdued his fingers.

The whole county in which Loch Goil is situate, is indeed a region of romantic beauty and mountain wild; of the last, Ben Cruchan is a sublime specimen, rising 3,300 feet above the level of the sea.

The steam-boat on the lake is an attractive object in such a district as Loch Goilby associating one of the boasted triumphs of art with the stupendous grandeur of the sublime.

In the poet and the philosopher, the lover of the sublime, and the student of the beautiful in artthe contemplation of such a scene as this must awaken ecstatic feelings of admiration and awe.

How much finer it would be if you had some boys in training for the sublime contests of life, an' it wouldn't cost half so much.

Our drive was splendid and the scenery sublime; even we distinguished Swiss travellers thought so!

Thy mercy o'er this scene sublime presides; 'Tis mercy forms the veil that hides The ardent solar beam; While, from the volley'd breast of heaven, Transient gleams of dazzling light, Flashing on the balls of sight, Make darkness darker seem.

What a sublime hypocrite our Richard was, to be sure.

They have lately furnished the middle region of it with a new set of meteors, in order to give the sublime to many modern tragedies.

This often arises from what the Italians call the gusto grande in these arts, which is what we call the sublime in writing.

For the sublime principles of equity and the great historic developments that underlie the conventions which enter into the administration of public justice, Mr. Conger cared nothing.

The orator may be allowed play for his peculiar genius; he may be sublime even in employing some foolish trick of his art.

The chest drawn in with the shoulders elevated, is the expression of the sublime.