almost-sublime

Updated: May 5, 2025

What an Explosion of glass-crackers, fire-balls, flaming-serpents; generally, of sleeping gunpowder, in its most artistic forms, flaming out sky-high over all the Parish, on a sudden! The almost-sublime of Maupertuis, which exists in large quantities, here is a new artist who knows how to treat it. Clever, but wrong, do you say?

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16