The thirty-third canto of the "Inferno" supremely exemplifies the sustaining energy of poetic imagination, that by its Sublimating light it can forever hold before the mind, in tearful, irresistible beauty, one of the most woful forms of human suffering, death by starvation.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
The huge shadows of the rocks, fringed with firs, concentrating the views without darkening them, excited that tender melancholy which, Sublimating the imagination, exalts rather than depresses the mind.
"Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark"
Mary Wollstonecraft
You may withdraw beyond this range by Sublimating religion into a philosophy, but then it loses touch with terrestrial affairs, and has a very feeble control over the unruly affections of sinful men.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall