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Definition of Sublimities
1. sublimity [n] - See also: sublimity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublimities
Literary usage of Sublimities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1842)
"The beauties and sublimities of nature are presented in their most impressive
features, in points of view singularly striking and novel, and in connection ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"By Charles Bucke, author of the " Beauties, Harmonies, and sublimities of Nature."
8vo. pp. 195. London : Whittaker & Co. 1830. AN Epic Drama ! ..."
3. Italian Fantasies by Israel Zangwill (1910)
"OF DEAD sublimities, SERENE MAGNIFICENCES, AND GAGGED POETS THERE are few livelier
expressions of vitality than tombs, especially tombs designed or ..."
4. Italian Fantasies by Israel Zangwill (1910)
"OF DEAD sublimities, SERENE MAGNIFICENCES, AND GAGGED POETS THERE are few livelier
expressions of vitality than tombs, especially tombs designed or ..."
5. Art and Artists. by Roswell Willson Haskins (1851)
"Nature's sublimities and beauties are sown, indeed, broadcast throughout ...
But these sublimities, and these beauties rarely occur in such groups as to be ..."
6. A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1872)
"... rancor, or jealousy, and never shocks ua with atrocity, or stiffens us with
horror, or confounds us with (he dreadful sublimities of demoniacal energy. ..."
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