So Chrysostom might have retained his favor with the court and his see until he died, had he been less austere and censorious.

The secular historians of our day would call him arrogant, like the courtiers of Arcadius, who detested his plain speaking and his austere piety; but the poor and unimportant thought him as humble as the rich and great thought him proud.

Ruskin's mother, a devout and somewhat austere woman, brought her son up with Puritanical strictness, not forgetting Solomon's injunction that "the rod and reproof give wisdom.

His Greek refinement and his modern culture and tone of thought were but little agreeable to the austere and somewhat boorish fathers of the city; and serious doubts existed both as to his conduct of the Spanish war and as to his military discipline.

Nor let the sectarist, whose faith austere Pretends alone to point th' eternal road; Proud of his creed, pronounce with voice severe, All else excluded from the blest abode.

I should then with double pain Feel all the rigour of thy fickle clime; And, if I must bewail the blessing lost, For which our Hampdens and our Sydneys bled, I would at least bewail it under skies Milder, among a people less austere; In scenes, which, having never known me free, Would not reproach me with the loss I felt.

For his austere and melancholy nature, Eros was no tender or light-winged youngling, but a masculine tyrant, the tamer of male spirits.

PHILLPOTTS THE NOVELIST FOR WHOM MAN AND NATURE ARE INSEPARABLE WITH PROFOUND RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL DIGNITY OF HIS AIM AND EQUAL ADMIRATION FOR THE AUSTERE SPLENDOUR OF HIS PERFORMANCE CONTENTS PART

Kalon and Hegesias worked in a severe style, like that of the Etruscans; Kalamis was less austere; Myron more delicate still.

There is nothing austere in any page of the Amulet, nor anything so frivolous and light as to be objectionable; but it steers in the medium, and consequently must be acceptable to every well-regulated mind.

Amadis de Gaul was a tall man, of a fair complexion, his aspect something between mild and austere, and had a handsome black beard.

Bertram (Sir Stephen), an austere merchant, very just but not generous.

In Michael Angelo the genius of the Renaissance culminated; but his character was rather that of an austere Republican, free and solitary amid the multitudes of slaves and courtiers.

Both of these austere natures assimilated from pagan art and Jewish prophecy the twofold elements they needed for their own imaginative life.

After the death of Julius, Leo X., in character the reverse of his fiery predecessor, and by temperament unsympathetic to the austere Michael Angelo, found nothing better for the sculptor's genius than to set him at work upon the façade of S. Lorenzo at Florence.

But, while awake and in possession of his senses, he was hurried suddenly away and carried to a room, where the invisible power sustaining him appeared in human shape, "like a youth whose beard is but just growing, with a face most marvellous, fair, but of austere and far from wanton beauty."

So when the humble address their superiors, or when children write to austere grandfathers, they suffer from an awkwardness of mental attitude which is the paralysis of all spontaneity.

"He has the sacred gift of inspiring men to care for high things, and to make their lives at once rich and austere.

Winters it was he who went into ecstasies under her tremendous "Hojotoho!"the fierce cry of a Valkyrie afraid of the austere father Wotan; or at sight of her awakening among the flames for the spirited Siegfried, the hero who feared nothing in the world, but trembled at the first glance of love!

The love-tragedy of Max and Thekla casts a mellow light of romance over the otherwise austere political action.

The persimon is a fruit to which you are a stranger; it may be ranked with the plums, but has four stones, and is not fit to eat till bitten by the frost, when its austere and astringent taste disappears, and it becomes nearly transparent, and as rich and sweet as Guava jelly.

Round Mr. Newman gathered, with a curious mixture of freedom, devotion, and awefor, with unlimited power of sympathy, he was exacting and even austere in his friendshipsthe best men of his college, either FellowsR.

This training was not showy; it was sometimes austere, even extravagantly austere; but it was true, and enduring, and it issued often in a steady and unconscious elevation of the religious character.

This training was not showy; it was sometimes austere, even extravagantly austere; but it was true, and enduring, and it issued often in a steady and unconscious elevation of the religious character.

The austere earnestness of the former "wearer of the coarse petticoat."