Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sublime
Sublime as Niagara.
—Anonymous
Sublime as the cliffs and the clouds Anonymous
Sublime as the sky overhead.
—Honoré de Balzac
Sublime as a fact.
—George Canning
Sublime, like a pit crockery Idol.
—Thomas Carlyle
Sublime as Milton’s immemorial theme.
—Sydney Dobell
Sublime … as the combats of Homer.
—Victor Hugo
Sublime, as tropic storm.
—Henry. C. Merivale
Sublime … like the sun’s fir’d flame.
—John Scott
As faith sublime.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sublime and triumphant as fire or as lightning.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sublime,
As God were man, to spare or to forget.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sublime as storm or sorrow.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sublime as truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
As Liberty, sublime.
—William Thomson
Sublime as heaven.
—William Thomson