sublime

Dinah, covered with her long white dress, her pale face full of subdued emotion, almost like a lovely corpse into which the soul has returned charged with sublimer secrets and a sublimer love.

And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?

And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

Why must every body praise Joseph's great-hearted generosity to his cruel brethren, without stint of fervent language, and fling only a reluctant bone of praise to Esau for his still sublimer generosity to the brother who had wronged him?

Nous utilisons a cet effet des techniques modernes qui nous permettent d'avoir une tenue a l'air du temps, facile a porter et de mettre en valeur et sublimer la silhouette.

Le choix de l'epitre, d'inspiration ovidienne cette fois, se trouve ainsi remotive : appel au retour, plainte ou supplique de l'exile, ces lettres expriment le sentiment d'un manque et une tension vers l'autre que l'ecriture poetique tente de sublimer. Comme Joachim Du Bellay, le juriste inscrit le desiderium patriae au caeur de sa poetique, mais lui donne une signification qui lui est propre : L'Hospital, fils d'un paria, doit d'abord trouver sa place aupres de ceux qui comptent dans la double carriere qu'il entreprend.

that the majority's opinion "rests on sublimer intelligences

Elle me permet de [beaucoup moins que] creer de l'extraordinaire a partir de l'ordinaire [beaucoup plus grand que], de sublimer en somme le banal.

The idea is clearly contained in Morley's notion of "synthetic criticism" as proposed in his essay on Byron, whom he ranked among the "sublimer masters" who "come to us with the size and quality of great historic forces." For a poet like Byron, he says, "we need synthetic criticism, which, after analysis has done its work, and disclosed to us the peculiar qualities of form, conception, and treatment, shall collect the products of this first process, construct for us the poet's mental figure in its integrity and just coherence, and then finally, as the sum of its work, shall trace the relations of the poet's ideas, either direct or indirect, through the central currents of thought, to the visible tendencies of an existing age" (6).