In the old chapter-house is a very large, and for the angelic Frater a very hazardous performance,a Crucifixion.

O that I possessed more of this blessed spirit; for truly it is angelic!

" Had Ithuriel touched with his spear the beautiful young woman, thus for a moment, as it seemed, lost in a trance of gratitude and love, would that angelic form have stood the test unscathed?

A spectator, marking the scene, might have observed a strange gleam in her eyesa strange expression in her facean influence for a moment not angelic, like a shadow of some passing spirit, cross her visibly, as she leaned over the gentle lady's neck, and murmured, "Dear madame, how happyhow very happy you make me."

Mademoiselle stood in the center of the apartment, alone, erect, with heaving breast and burning cheekbeautiful, thoughtful, guiltythe very type of the fallen angelic.

I say created, for I found her, like the rest of the sex, anything but angelic.

It was moral madness pursuing him to destruction,the logical and necessary sequence of unrestrained self-will, sometimes assuming the form of angelic loveliness and inspiration in the eyes of his idolaters.

Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful^, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right- minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled^. exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.

Adj. angelic, seraphic, cherubic; saintly. 978.

These are not elemental spirits (see p.47, note 1), but are either angelic beings of a fiery nature, or the spirits of the blessed in the sphere of the sun, of whom Dante speaks as follows: Lights many saw, vivid and triumphant, Make us a center and themselves a circle, More sweet in voice than luminous in aspect,

Know ye not that we are worms, born to compose the angelic butterfly, provided we throw off the husks that impede our flight?"

[Footnote 22: "Non v'accorgete voi, che noi siam vermi, Nati a formar l'angelica farfalla, Che vola a giustizia senza schermi?" "Know you not, we are worms Born to compose the angelic butterfly, That flies to heaven when freed from what deforms?"

"I am Angelic Love," said the light, "and I spin for joy of the womb in which our Hope abided; and ever, O Lady of Heaven, must I thus attend thee, as long as thou art pleased to attend thy Son, journeying in his loving-kindness from sphere to sphere.

Here he had a glimpse of the divine essence, in likeness of a point of inconceivably sharp brightness enringed with the angelic hierarchies.

It is built over the supposed site of the house in which the mother of Christ was living, at the time of the angelic annunciation.

"But what did the angelic girl do when her guardian was gone?

I traced the development of his powers, and instanced some of his poems, my poems, which I recited so well that they sounded to me, and I swear to them also, like staves from an angelic hymn-book.

The second stanza invokes the Muse,"Not thou whose brow was wreathed with the unenduring bays of Helicon, but thou who in angelic choirs hast a golden crown set with immortal stars,do thou breathe celestial ardor into the poet's heart!"

"It would be still more dreadful if so angelic a creature as Bloundel's daughter is represented to befor I have never seen hershould be so seized," observed Bottesham.

Thanks, uncounted thanks to the angelic ladies whose charming attentions detained him from Saturday to Thursday, to his great advantage and my infinite bewilderment!

Round Fox's tomb, what forms angelic weep, And ever watch that chill and marble sleep!

Among them was one that seemed to hover above the othersa sweet boy's voice, full, pure, angelic.

And you shall ever after direct me as you please till you have made me more worthy of your angelic purity.

(With acknowledgments to Mr. KIPLING.) I went into a private 'ouse to get a place as cook; The lady ups an' greets me with a most angelic look: "I've just been makin' tea," she sez, "I 'opes as you will try These little scones wot I 'ave baked;" and to myself sez I: "It was Polly this, an' Polly that, an' 'Polly, scrub the floor,'

His angelic countenance, his melodious voice, the interest inspired by his youth, which was increased by the courage he had shown, and the services he had performed, for he had already made, in the preceding year, a campaign in the East Indies, all this filled us with the tenderest interest for this young victim, devoted to a death so dreadful and premature.