If he has bowels, they must melt at the contrition so queerly charactered of a contrite sinner.

o'er with perjury, whose sinful breast Is charactered like those curst of the blest.

They stake their necklaces, leggings, ornaments, and in fact, their all, on the play, which is done sometimes with blue wild plum-stones, hieroglyphically charactered, and sometimes with playing bones, but oftener with common cards.

It was an astounding feat, and when Priam recovered from his amazement he fell into another amazement on discovering that by some magic means the man in evening dress had insinuated a gold-charactered menu into his hands.

Learned men have learned books, Which they ponder night and day; Easier leaves than theirs I read, Blossoms pink and white; Blossom-leaves all pink and white, Wherein I can see Charactered, as clear as light, The old apple-tree; The gold-cheeked apple-tree; The red-streaked apple-tree; All the fruit that groweth on The ripe, rosy apple-tree!

All these are charactered in black-letter, and form part of the elaborate ornamentation of the Louse.

As to some, they are never content if they do not find beauty, whatever the subject, though it may neutralize the character, if not render it ridiculous.

Nor is it necessary to adduce examples; our object being rather to show that the recognition of goodnessand we beg that the word be especially notedmust result, of necessity, in such an emotion as shall partake of its own character, that is, be entirely devoid of self-interest.

It is not therefore surprising, that, where the condition is so precluded, there should be, not only no proper response to the law of Good or Evil, but such frequent misapprehension of their true character.

Take, for instance, but a single passion, and clothe it with this character; in the same instant it becomes sublime.

This too is Art; and the highest art, when thus the awful power, without losing its character, is tempered, as it were, to our mysterious desires.

What we contend for is simply its reality; the character of the perception, like that of every other truth, depending on the individual characte

We find him accordingly in the daily habit of mentally distinguishing this person from that, as a moral being, and of assigning to each a separate character; and this not voluntarily, but simply because he cannot avoid it.

Still, in that case its use would be limited to a single object, that is, to itself, its own perfectness; it would not aid the Artist in the intermediate ascent to it,unless it contained within itself all the gradations of human character; which no one will pretend.

Whether the position we have endeavoured to establish be disputed or not, the absolute correspondence between the Moral and the Physical is, at any rate, the essential ground of the Plastic arts; which could not else exist, since through Form alone they have to convey, not only thought and emotion, but distinct and permanent character.

It would appear, then, that in the Mind alone is to be found the true or ultimate Rule,if, indeed, that can be called a rule which changes its measure with every change of character.

For instance, if the subject be of a gay and light character, and the emotions intended to be excited of a similar nature, the variety may be carried to a far greater extent than in one of a graver character.

My attention, however, was mainly fixed by the sanguinary; it came across me like an east wind, and I felt a cold sweat damping my linen; and when this was suddenly succeeded by the benevolent, I was sure I had got at the secret of his character,no less than that of a murderer haunted by remorse.

"None, Sir," said the stranger; "I have it on the authority of my respectable landlord, that, ever since this gentleman's arrival, he has been incessant in his attempts to blacken my character with every person at the inn."

So far, indeed, as the imitation has been confined to a suggestion, and the attitude adopted has been modified by the new subject, to which it was transferred, by a distinct change of character and expression, though with but little variation in the disposition of limbs, we may not dissent; such imitations being virtually little more than hints, since they end in thoughts either totally different from, or more complete than, the first.

He is healthy, has a good character, and comes of a high family.

It shows what a larrikin Don Juan sort of character you are.

The evil consequences of the Revolution upon Dryden's character and fortunes began to abate sensibly within a year or two after that event.

The leading and most characteristic features of the lady's character were doubtless pointed out to our author as subjects for illustration; yet so difficult is it, even for the best poet, to feign a sorrow which he feels not, or to describe with appropriate and animated colouring a person whom he has never seen, that Dryden's poem resembles rather an abstract panegyric on an imaginary being, than an elegy on a real character.

The leading and most characteristic features of the lady's character were doubtless pointed out to our author as subjects for illustration; yet so difficult is it, even for the best poet, to feign a sorrow which he feels not, or to describe with appropriate and animated colouring a person whom he has never seen, that Dryden's poem resembles rather an abstract panegyric on an imaginary being, than an elegy on a real character.