Then she fled to the stove and retrieved the burning bacon as though here were the one matter of transcendent importance.

I visit them for their calm seclusion, their pure air, their natural cheerfulness, their transcendent beauty, their brilliant mornings, their glorious sunsets, their quiet and repose.

Epilepsy, just the same, may occur in men gifted with the sort of transcendent ability called genius.

'In spite of his transcendent genius, Keats never was, nor ever will be, a popular poet; and the total neglect and obscurity in which the astonishing remains of his mind still lie was hardly to be dissipated by a writer who, however he may differ from Keats in more important qualities, at least resembles him in that accidental one, a want of popularity.

Here, then, is a dilemma; if I say what I really feel about this work, after vainly endeavouring day after day to discover the transcendent merits discovered by thousands (or at least proclaimed by them), there is every likelihood of my incurring the contempt of connoisseurs, and of being reproached with want of taste in art.

Scott, says Lockhart, considered Byron the only poet of transcendent talents we had had since Dryden.

But nothing short of transcendent talents and transcendent services can account for his retention of office and his marked success.

Whatever objection may be urged to his dramas on the score of morality, nobody can question their transcendent art or their great originality.

Yet he did not retire from the active government without making a memorable speech to the assembled nation, in which with transcendent dignity he appealed to the people in attestation of his incorruptible integrity as a judge and ruler.

The version of Wyclif, besides its transcendent value to the people, now able to read the Bible in their own language (before a sealed book, except to the clergy and the learned), gave form and richness to the English language.

Sets forth the lady's transcendent virtue, and greatness of mind.

"This chief, by his several transcendent qualities had arrived at the highest pitch of the red glory....

Whatever view we may take of the comparative merits of an aristocracy or an imperial despotism in a corrupt age, we cannot deny to Caesar some transcendent services and a transcendent fame.

In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads, and draw all this wide power to a point.

Such confidence can be based only on transcendent character.

That he was passing leisurely along with his rifle at a trail, admiring the transcendent loveliness of the scenery around him, where the rugged and the sublime, the placid and the beautiful, were so magnificently mingled, when, in turning a sharp angle, a huge bear" "Copy!" shouted the printer's devil, as he came plunging down three steps at a bound from the compositors' room above.

Criticism forbids the transcendent use of reason (transcending experience); it permits, demands, and itself exercises the transcendental use of it, which explains an experiential object, knowledge, from its conditions, which are not empirically given.

The thought has little originality, the versification less varied music than is his wont, and no passage of transcendent power occurs.

And when Algiers was conquered by the French in 1830, the sacred relics of the saint were transferred from Pavia (where they had been deposited by the order of Charlemagne), in a coffin of lead, enclosed in a coffin of silver, and the whole secured in a sarcophagus of marble, and finally committed to the earth near the scenes which had witnessed his transcendent labors.

There are three original and pregnant pairs of thoughts which cause Kant's name to shine in the philosophical sky as a star of the first magnitude: the demand for a critique of knowledge and the proof of a priori forms of knowledge; the moral autonomy and the categorical imperative; the regulative validity of the Ideas of reason and the practical knowledge of the transcendent world.

18), is not a transcendent creator, but natura naturans, over against the sum of finite beings, natura naturata (I. prop.

He was, perhaps, as amazed at his own transcendent gift as any other person could be, and he was incapable of hiding his sensations.

The rainbow we saw in great perfection; bow within bow, and (what I never saw elsewhere so perfectly), as I advanced into the spray, the bow became complete, myself being a part of its circumference, and its transcendent glories moving with every change of position.

And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.

Therefore not love, nor thy transcendent face, Nor cruelty, nor fortune, nor disdain, Cause my mischance, nor fate, nor destiny; Since in thy heart thou carriest death and grace Enclosed together, and my worthless brain Can draw forth only death to feed on me.