Both Uses of
sublime
in
Candide
- …have almost no merit; he proved in few words that it was not enough to introduce one or two of those situations which one finds in all romances, and which always seduce the spectator, but that it was necessary to be new without being odd, often sublime and always natural, to know the human heart and to make it speak; to be a great poet without allowing any person in the piece to appear to be a poet; to know language perfectly—to speak it with purity, with continuous harmony and without…†
Chpt 22
- They saw heads decently impaled for presentation to the Sublime Porte.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable