This is man's first duty, and the diviner he is the more divinely will he execute it.

You will make me better, purer, for love, the true refiner, Burning out the baser passions, will kindle the diviner, Will plead and wind my spirit, not to shame its heavenly station, You will trust me, and that trust will prove my tempted soul's salvation.

And still, from earth and sea, there ever pealeth A voice far softer than leal lover's lay, Bearing the heart, o'er which its true sense stealeth, Far to diviner dreams of joy away, And to the wisdom of a riper day.

You are plac'd on earth but as a Substitute To a Diviner being as subiects are to you; And are so long a king to be obey'd As you are iust.

Her brain gave way, and then came that terrible spectacle, The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on its dim and perilous way, she sang bits of old songs and Psalms, stopping suddenly, mingling the Psalms of David and the diviner words of his Son and Lord, with homely odds and ends and scraps of ballads.

" It is not so easy to consider fairly a question like this in the hour when vital personal interests pivot on the decision, as it is in a season of rest and safety; yet, if in a time of extremest peril the unvarying duty of truthfulness shines clearly through an atmosphere of sore temptation, that light may be accepted as diviner because of its very power to penetrate clouds and to dispel darkness.

Con is a proper name, and can or khan is a title of dignity, signifying a diviner or soothsayer, and is applied to all princes in these countries, because the government of the people belongs to them through divination.

for a Spirit That might but parcell of thy worth inherit; For but a sparke of that diviner fire Which thy full breast did animate and inspire; That Soules could be divided, thou traduce But a small particle of thine to us!

With me have I brought Jelchs, the Raven, diviner of mystery and seer of things.

The king, enraged at this, and, as they say, mocking at his art, said, "Come, thou diviner, tell me, whether what I have in my mind can be done or not?"

The legend was that Pay Zume, as he was called in Paraguay (Pay = magician, diviner, priest), came from the East, from the Sun-rising, in years long gone by.

In those first years warm-hearted young enthusiasts at the universities saw in the violence of their fellow-men across the Channel only the struggles of the beautiful Spirit of Liberty bursting the chains of age-long tyranny and corruption and calling men up to the heights to breathe diviner air.

He knew that Ajut would consult an Angekkok, or diviner, concerning the fate of her lover, and the felicity of her future life.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream.

Of all the numerous progeny was none So beautiful, so brave, as Absalom: Whether inspired by some diviner lust, His father got him with a greater gust; 20 Or that his conscious destiny made way, By manly beauty to imperial sway.

He had asked for love; but when such love unveiled itself, he felt like the disciple of old in the view of a diviner tenderness,"Depart from me, for I am a sinful man.

As man looks backward he beholds beyond nature a face like his own, only diviner; and ever afterward the noblest aspiration of his soul is to win the smile of that face and to escape its frown.

"It never suits a royal ear Prowess of foreign lands to hear; And, leaving tales of Charlemagne For British Arthur's earlier reign, I, preluding with praise, began The feats of that diviner man; Let loose my soul in fairy land, Gave wilder licence to my hand;

As a matter of rude fact, there is much to make us question whether the spread of literature, as now understood, does awaken the diviner mind.

In their "Nativities," the ox and ass are not, indeed, omitted; they must be present by religious and prescriptive usage; but they are to be made picturesque, as if they were in the stable by right, and as if it were only a stable, not a temple hallowed to a diviner significance.

Such a prayer, if some one can give it voice, is something far higher and diviner than ever ascended from any secret shrine.

Cleopatra herself never felt nor inspired a diviner passion than Valeska; but when it came to a question of her love or her country she rose above self with an almost superhuman effort and saved her country at the expense of her love.

“But you are going to an ampler ether, a diviner air.

The world of his creation is not a copy of our own; it is a heightened and rarefied extension of it; moving, in triumph and in beauty, through 'an ampler ether, a diviner air.'

On that night which was designed to end for her the life of childhood, she had, for the first time, beheld the symbol of the world's diviner beautya cross.