Manfred himself, that wondrous conception of genius, whose lot was cast amid all the sublimities of nature, despite his pride and his strength of will, yet was made to wear the sackcloth of penance.
To such honours a modern edifice can lay no claim; and the puny efforts of elegance appear contemptible, when, in such situations, they are obtruded in rivalship with the sublimities of Nature.
In his writings we find that free commingling of licentious morals with a taste for religious sublimities which characterized the last years of Louis XIV.
But in the swift intuitions of the imagination, in the purities and sublimities of the prophet-poet's soul, neither Veronese nor yet even Titian can approach him.
The sublimities of tragic passion lay beyond his scope.
Tintoretto could not but have foreseen that the world of living pettiness and passion would perpetually jostle with his world of painted sublimities and sanctities in that vast hall.
But the greatest sight, the crowning feature, of all this panorama of sublimitiesis Glacier Peak seen from Cloudy Pass.
We are almost sated with sublimities by the time we pass on down below St. Peter's Dome, but one of the most unique scenes of all is close at hand.
Here are solitudes seldom visited by man, where are treasured sublimities that enchain the mind, and inspire a feeling of devotion in the heart of the beholder.
Since then Red Jacket has gone to his grave, and this rock where he often stood and feasted his soul on sublimities unrivalled in nature, has likewise fallen, while the world, like the impetuous flood, rolls on unconscious of both.
In the passage whose sublimities awoke the enthusiasm of Macaulay, and delivered him from insufferable boredom, Paul claims to have reached the limits of finality, and he hurls defiance at all the forces of futurity.
All the sublimities and all the simplicities of life met in his soul.
Eschewing all which, the reader shall commodiously conceive it all, by two samples we have picked out for him: one sample of a Person, high Guest present; one of an Apartment where the sublimities went on.
Upon which they all solemnly ascend to the Royal Apartments [upstairs where we have seen Wilhelmina dancing before now], where Lorraine, Wurtemberg and the other sublimities are in waiting.
Lorraine and the sublimities form a semicircle; with the two Majesties, and pair of young creatures, in the centre.
It is justifiable to do this; for why should I let my small infirmities of disposition live and grovel among my mental pictures of the eternal sublimities of the Alps?
I remember when and where we projected that: in the leafy glades with the mountain sublimities dozing in the blue haze beyond the gorge of Allerheiligen.
But the presence of humour might save the sublimities from a fall, and Browning had hitherto in his art made but slight and occasional use of a considerable gift of humour which he possessed.
It is in companionship with the sublimities that awkwardness and coarseness are destroyed.
A reverent homage before the sublimitiesof yesterday is the condition of a fine perception of the hidden triumphs of the morrow.
All the delights of direct intercourse with the sublimities and indescribable beauties of nature vanished in a trice!
Men of little book culture, and with but slight acquaintance with the elegancies of polished life, have often a high appreciation of the beauties and the sublimities of nature.
In his ancestral home he had heard of the sublimities of the wilderness; the wide-spread prairies; the gloomy forests; the solitary lakes.
The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other.
That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.
He lived among the Alps; and his reading lay among the alpine sublimities of Milton and Shakspeare.
Amid the rapture of Vedic hymns to these sublimities we meet sharp questionings whether there be any such gods as the priests say, and suspicion is sometimes cast on sacrifices.
The deepest assurance comes not as an intellectual view nor as an impression from the sublimities of nature.
Then the strain breaks into an exultant tenderness, weaving into one chord the deepest griefs and consolations of woman, the sublimities of nature, all the passion and all the peace of the heart.
To make a future heaven and hell take any hold of them at all, the church had to translate its mysteries and sublimities into a very material and crude ceremonial.
My dislike to personal traffic in the sublimities of truth began to waver.
But what are cuts, bruises, fatigue, and singed eyelashes, in comparison with the awful sublimities I have witnessed to-day?
This has been an irresistibly comical day, and it is just as well to have something amusing interjected between the sublimities of Kilauea, and whatever to-morrow may bring forth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sublimities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
