Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Sublime
Little by little we recede from the terrible to the contemptible.
Longinus, De Subl. 3.
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon.—(Riley’s Class. Dict. 535.)
Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Little by little we recede from the terrible to the contemptible.
Longinus, De Subl. 3.
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon.—(Riley’s Class. Dict. 535.)