But the prayer for a blessing on them came from as pure a heart as any child's that lives.

Beautyyou pure one thing.

So was Louis converted; and though the lips of the scorner Spared not in after-years the subtle taunt and derision, (What time, meeker grown, his heart held his hand from its answer,) Not the less lofty and pure her love and her faith that had saved him, Not the less now discerned was her inspiration from heaven

Keep pure our souls from passion's guile, Our hearts from earthly love!

The prayers addressed to these deities breathe as pure a spirit of devotion as many now heard in Christian lands.

Now, who is it that put the idea of the infinite, that is to say of perfection, in a subject so stinted and so full of imperfection? Did it give itself so sublime, and so pure an idea, which is itself a kind of infinite in imagery?

And on whose features left impress'd The Contact's holy sign: A light, a halo, and a grace, So pure th' expression of that face.

If ever woman's face told a story, hers didif ever love softened, made more tender and pure any face on earth, it was hers.

Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep, And Love stands broken by thy lonely lyre; So pure the fire God gave this clay to keep, The clay must still seem holy for the fire.

Which flashed forth wrath that all might feel, Who Israel's right oppressed; Yet, in its sacred chambers rose As pure a flame as ever glows Within a parent's breast.

[10] "Sans doute le cardinal avait les mains pures de toute fraude; sans doute il n'était pour rien dans l'escroquerie commise par les époux de La Mothe.

Can I slight so pure a friendship, and throw away the jewel upon which all my future happiness depends?" The conversation, from the peculiar circumstances of the lovers, had so immediately become interesting, that the gentlemen had not had an opportunity of quitting them.

And ever pure the fanning gale That pants in Arno's myrtle vale!

For the sun had not yet risen, though he was about to rise, and the sky was like to pure gold for brightness; all the grass and leaves and flowers were drenched with sweet and fragrant dew, and the birds were singing so vehemently that the heart of any man could not but rejoice in the fulness of life that lay all around about him.

And I pray that it shall be given unto all of ye to live as brave and honorable and pure a life as he did; and that you, upon your part, may claim a like glory and credit in the world in which you dwell by such noble behavior as he exhibited.

"Your father is just as pure a man as I am a woman, and I would be ashamed to look any child of mine in the face if he were not.

She died when flowers were fading; fit season for one of so gentle and pure a nature to depart.

How great a pity was it this tender conversation between two persons who had so pure a passion for each other, who had been absent for some time, and who knew not when, or whether ever they should meet again, could not be indulged with no longer continuance!

Shelley, as pure a philanthropist as St. Francis or Howard, could forget mankind, and, like his Adonaïs, become one with nature.

Sects in a state seem only tolerated with any reason because they are already spread; and because it would not be agreeable with so mild a government, or so pure a religion as ours, to use violent methods against great numbers of mistaken people, while they do not manifestly endanger the constitution of either.

So pure the sky, so quiet was the air!

~God's Acre.~ Oh, so pure the white syringas!

a change from practical Ditheism to pure Theism.

Thou dost purify others, and thou art not pure thyself; but we will soon purify thee.'

"Or is it wings of angels pure That touch along the sky?