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Two allegoric figures, representing, one, France, the other, Italy, with their feet resting on clouds, held in their hands a roll bearing this inscription: Sublimi feriam sidera vertice, "I shall strike the stars with my lofty head"; with the other, they each offered a crown to Napoleon. Thus did flattery renew the apotheoses of the Caesars of ancient Rome.
Palma is victory. I observed, that the character of Nicholson, in this book resembled that of Burke: for it is said, in one place, 'in omnes lusos & jocos se saepe resolvebat ; and, in another, 'sed accipitris more e conspectu aliquando astantium sublimi se protrahens volatu, in praedam miro impetu descendebat . JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I never heard Burke make a good joke in my life . BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, you will allow he is a hawk. Dr.
I, too, will strive o'er earth my flight to raise, And wing'd by victory, catch the gale of praise. Sotheby. And Horace, in the conclusion of his first Ode, expresses himself in terms which indicate a similar purpose. Quad si me lyricis vatibis inseres, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.
A man could not speak more simply and childishly than Christ spake, and yet he confounded therewith all the wisdom of the worldly-wise. To speak in such a manner, said Luther, is not in sublimi, sed humili genere: if I should teach a child, I would teach him in this sort: "He that loves me, will keep my Word."
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