"The feeling of [the sublime] is sometimes accompanied with dread, or even melancholy, in some cases with tranquil adm…"

"Deep solitude is sublime, but in a terrific manner."

"The sublime must be simple, the beautiful may be dressed and ornamented."

"In the Old Testament stories... the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two re…"

"I resolved, therefore, to bend my studies towards the Holy Scriptures, that I might see what they were. But behold, I…"

"Without minute neatness of execution the sublime cannot exist. Grandeur of ideas is precision of ideas. Singular and …"

"Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it co…"

"That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the c…"

"This tendency, however, to ascribe an universality of genius to great men, led Dryden to affirm, on the strength of t…"

"A somewhat old age unites itself more with the properties of the sublime, but youth with those of the beautiful."