Read full poem →Apollo bids it, and they must obey.
And yet so wonderful, sublime a thing
As the great Iliad, scarce could make me sing,
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. sublimeporte sublime
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Poetry examples for “sublime”
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Read full poem →Though daring Milton sits sublime,
In Spenser, native Muses play;
Read full poem →How modest, kindly, all-accomplish’d, wise,
With what sublime repression of himself,
And in what limits, and how tenderly;
Read full poem →Touched by dawn or subdued by night.
The dark wind, stern and sublime and sad,
Swings the rollers to westward, clad
Read full poem →And altitude of aloe proud
Aspire in floreal crown sublime;
Read full poem →How small a change of the comic words would turn this into the sublime?
suppose it spoke of Nero by one who knew he would be at once deserted
Read full poem →what our old Encjish writers often distinguish by the name of humour. The stile too of La-
writ, like Lazariilo*8 and the Knight*8, is often the burlesque sublime. Here I found the pro-
logue speaking of the authors in the plural number, i. e. Beaumont and Fletcher. There is
Read full poem →Having thus given, we hope, pretty strong proofs of our authors excel-
lence in the sublime, and shewn how near they approach in splendor to the
5redt sun of the British Theatre ; let us now just touch on their comedies and
Read full poem →sneering either; and indeed if every quotation from Shakespeare thus
jocularly applied is a real sneer upon him, then all burlesque sublime is a
sneer upon the real sublime, and Beaumont sneered himself as well as
Read full poem →And found myself all self above,
And, with a charity sublime,
Contemn’d not those who did not love: