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