Sight so deform, what Heart of Rock could long Dry-eyed behold?

This was so common that the most refined and delicate beheld them unmoved.

"All gone! 'tis ours the goodly land Look roundthe heritage behold; Go forthupon the mountain stand; Then, if you can, be cold.

Hear him, ye Deaf, and all ye Blind behold!

Dante beheld among them the Annunciation, represented with so much life, that the sweet action of the angel seemed to be uttering the very word, "Hail!" and the submissive spirit of the Virgin to be no less impressed, like very wax, in her demeanour.

I cast my sight upon the farther field, And a fresh object of delight beheld: For from the region of the West I heard New music sound, and a new troop appear'd; Of knights and ladies mix'd, a jolly band, But all on foot they march'd, and hand in hand.

Then she said to Percival: "My son, that which thou didst behold was doubtless an angel."

To the imagination of the former, the roll of the carriage-wheels was the sound of pursuing horses; in every turn of the road her fevered fancy beheld the figure of Lord Alphingham: at one time glaring on her in reproachful bitterness, at another, in mockery, derision, satire; and when she closed her eyes, those visions still tormented, nor did they depart till she felt her mother's arm around her, her gentle voice pronounce her name.

And, like the timid lambs that crowd with bleatings in the fold, When they advancing to their throats the furious wolf behold, The lovely Moorish maidens, with wet but flashing eyes, Are crowded in a public square and fill the air with cries; And tho', like tender women, 'tis vain for them to arm, Yet loudly they re-echo the words of the alarm.

God grant that I may keep this mortal breath Until I too that glorious day behold Which shall at last confound the sons of death!

But from the ridiculous to the sublime, it is but a stepand while talking of Le hasard behold, we have arrived at the Maison Dorée.

Innocent beheld with regret the disturbances which had arisen in England, and was much inclined to favour John in his pretensions.

Certain people, certain human atmospheres, certain wandering forces, thoughts, desires eventhe radiations of certain combinations of colour, and above all, the vibrations of certain kinds of music, will suddenly throw me into a state of what I can only describe as an intense and terrific inner vibrationand behold I am off!

In the half-light jean beheld a lady so different from all he had ever set eyes on till that moment that he could form no notion of what she was, no idea of her beauty or her age.

Now they charge on amain, Now they rally again: The gods from above the mad labour behold, And pity mankind, that will perish for gold.

But let him mortal insolence behold: How with proud contumacy rife, Wantons the stem in lusty life

As home they are brought, all dripping and cold, To all who their piteous plight behold, The worst of the story is plainly told Their parents were disobeyed!

10 The god well-pleased beheld the pompous show,

Rags, relics, witches, ghosts, fiends, crowd your page; Our fathers' mummeries we well-pleased behold, And, proudly conscious of a purer age, Forgive some fopperies in the times of old.

the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old!

Our British youth, with inborn freedom bold, Unnumbered scenes of servitude behold, 80 Nations of slaves, with tyranny debased, (Their Maker's image more than half defaced,) Hourly instructed, as they urge their toil, To prize their queen, and love their native soil.

But as our kind is of a softer mould, 90 And cannot blood without a sigh behold, I grant thee life; reserving still the power To take the forfeit when I see my hour: Unless thy answer to my next demand Shall set thee free from our avenging hand.

Has length of life and a hapless old age reserved me for thisto behold you first an exile, then an enemy?

90 From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire!

Gr. 607 A, edited by M. Treu, Ohlau, 1880, p. 29 ff.), who seems to have used Dio as a source: a) The mother of Augustus just one day previous to her travail beheld in a dream how her womb was snatched away and carried up into heaven.