1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm
Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.

The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.

Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]

Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.

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