satanic grandeur, believers

Devil's Gate

 1852

"So named perhaps by some earnest believer in Satanic grandeur, it is in truth the gateway chosen, (for its romantic beauty, I shall say) by that fair and gentle offspring of mountain dell, the better named Sweet Water...." --Southern Literary Messenger 18 (August 1852): 506; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army, 348

 1851

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heart-woes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. --Moby-Dick

1850

"— a churlish, ill- tempered, unphilosophical, superstitious old bear of a quarter-gunner; a believer in Tophet...." -- White-Jacket