Illustrated magic.

He could say with Dante, that "no word had ever forced him to say what he would not, though he had forced many a word to say what it would not,"but only in the sense, that the mighty magic of his imagination had conjured out of it its uttermost secret of power or pathos.

Would the poet be again a creature of passion, and the novelist once more make you laugh and cry; and would there be essayists any more, whose pages you would mark and whose phrases you would roll over and over again on your tongue, with delight at some mysterious magic in the words?

Here the imitation of childbirth is a piece of homoeopathic or imitative magic designed to facilitate the effect which it simulates.

Up rose the moon, a thing of glory filling the warm, stilly night with a soft and radiant splendoura tender light, fraught with a subtle magic, whereby all things, rock and tree and leaping brook, found a new and added beauty.

She went on and on, scarcely feeling the ground beneath her feet, moving through an atmosphere of pure magic, all her pulses thrilling to the wonder of the night.

Here in a dark and dismal rocky room, Where Heaven's light could scarcely find a way, And where around him lay his books and tools Of hateful magic, littering the floor, Steadfast he looked upon a metal mirror That told the fates to him,then muttered low: "The time has come!

On the one hand it has been held that they are sun-charms or magical ceremonies intended, on the principle of imitative magic, to ensure a needful supply of sunshine for men, animals, and plants by kindling fires which mimic on earth the great source of light and heat in the sky.

Professional magic for amateurs.

The real differentia of the poet is his command over the secret magic of words.

The true explanation of the festivals I now believe to be the one advocated by Dr. Westermarck himself, namely that they are purificatory in intention, the fire being designed not, as I formerly held, to reinforce the sun's light and heat by sympathetic magic, but merely to burn or repel the noxious things, whether conceived as material or spiritual, which threaten the life of man, of animals, and of plants.

The immigrant told his story; he was youngoften younger than his yearsand his listener several years his senior; but the Creole, true to his blood, was able at any time to make himself as young as need be, and possessed the rare magic of drawing one's confidence without seeming to do more than merely pay attention.

Herein consists the peculiar magic of such a poem as Stepping Westward; and there is a touch of the same feeling in the Solitary Reaper.

Nothing in the place that isn't genuine Magic, and warranted thoroughly rum.

To hear Diaz play a scale, to catch that measured, tranquil succession of notes, each a different jewel of equal splendour, each dying precisely when the next was bornthis was to perceive at last what music is made of, to have glimpses of the divine magic that is the soul of the divinest art.

Then, as where Ceres pass'd, the teeming plain, Yellow'd with wavy crops of golden grain; So fruitful kisses fell where Venus flew; And by the power of genial magic grew: A plenteous harvest!

I always feel that music means much more than just music, born of earthjoy and sorrow, agony and rapture, are so mysteriously blended in its glorious magic.

The flaxen-haired girl and the dark boy were caught in the golden magic of it and, half scared, half ecstatic, were thrown into confusion.

The lowdah showed no light; and presently none was needed, foras the shallows gave place to deepsthe ocean boiled with the hoary, green-gold magic of phosphorus, that heaved alongside in soft explosions of witch-fire, and sent uncertain smoky tremors playing through the darkness on deck.

Was it possible that Bubbles possessed uncanny powerspowers which had something to do with the immemorial magic of the immemorial East? Blanche had once heard the phenomenon of the vanishing rope trick discussed at some length between a number of clever people.

For if ever I have beheld unfaltering hope and unflagging courage glorified and spiritualized into unearthly beauty, it was there in that pictured face, fixed by the imperishable magic of the camera.

Below lay the lagoon, still dreaming of the summer night; in the open the fish were jumping busily, sending musical ripples towards the shore; and in the air hung the magic of dawnsilent, incommunicable.

" There are nine verses of "The Night-Wind", and the first eight are negligible; but, as for the last and ninth, I do not know any poem in any language that renders, in four short lines, and with such incomparable magic and poignancy, the haunting and pursuing of the human by the inhuman, that passion of the homeless and eternal wind.

As I stroll about these hills, more leisurely, more thoughtfully than I used to do of old in my hot mountaineering days, I have tried to think out what it is that makes the Alpine landscape so marvelous a tonic to the spiritwhat is the special charm of it to those who have once felt all its inexhaustible magic.

But this my daughter Ysolinde, wise from a child, solaces herself with the white, innocent magic, such as helps man and brings him nearer that which is unseen.