Whatever his ideal, it was magnificent.

You must go to war as my soldierwith my ideal.

Bob was an ideal companion for such journeys, for he never lost his head and never missed connections, while nervous haste was unknown to him.

Or had ever elevated his [mind] views to that ideal perfection which every [mind] genius born to excel is condemned always to pursue and never overtake.

It is because of this poetic way of seeing things that one painter will give a faithful representation of a very common scene which shall nevertheless affect all sensitive minds as ideal, whereas another painter will represent the same with no greater fidelity, but with a complete absence of poetry.

Whereas the vulgar error of criticism is to judge of one kind by another, and generally to judge the higher by the lower, to remonstrate with Hamlet for not having the speech and manner of Mr. Jones, to wish that Fra Angelico could have seen with the eyes of the Carracci, to wish verse had been prose, and that ideal tragedy were acted with the easy manner acceptable in drawing-rooms.

Of these Persians Cyrus was the type-man, combining in himself all that was admirable in his countrymen, and making so strong an impression on the Greeks that he is presented by their historians as an ideal prince, invested with all those virtues which the mediaeval romance-writers have ascribed to the knights of chivalry.

Brilliant in intellect, lofty in character, he was an ideal man, fitted to be the guide of a noble nation whom he led to glory and honor.

I wish to dwell for a moment, perhaps longer than to some may seem dignified, on this ideal or sentimental love.

No mortal love can last, no mortal love is beautiful, unless the visions which the mind creates are not more or less realized in the object of it, or when a person, either man or woman, is not capable of seeing ideal perfections.

There could not have been such intensity in Dante's love had he not been gifted with the power of creating so lofty and beautiful an ideal; and it was this he worshipped,not the real Beatrice, but the angelic beauty he thought he saw in her.

A chaos of thoughts were revolving through her mind; the theme of all the variations being how different it was from what it might have been, if the ideal of her girlhood had not been shattered so cruelly.

We'll be able to land where they have passed in fifteen minutes, an ideal landing-placetramped hard.

On the whole he comes nearer than any other of his age to our ideal of a perfect prose writer.

The poets are not only singers, but leaders; they hold up an ideal, and they compel men to recognize and follow it.

(4) Though the age is generally characterized as practical and materialistic, it is significant that nearly all the writers whom the nation delights to honor vigorously attack materialism, and exalt a purely ideal conception of life.

They seem to recommend the obliteration or the confusion of the relations between price and cost as a superior ideal.

It is important to be clear what exactly this ideal involves.

Taking the human race collectively, its ideal of a court of justice has been the omniscient and inexorable judgment seat of God.

On the whole, success in attaining to ideal justice has not been quite commensurate with the time and effort devoted to solving the problem, but, until our constitutional experiment was tried in America, I think it had been pretty generally admitted that the first prerequisite to success was that judges should be removed from political influences.

Hence it was that, in the spirit of great lawyers, who were also possibly men tinged with a certain enthusiasm for the ideal, they began their work by ruling on the powers and limitations of sovereignty, as if they were ruling on the necessity of honest intent in dealings with one's neighbor.

How far personal ambition and how far a nobler ideal animated Saturninus no man can say.

Her second, the histories of most of "those sainted personages who lived, or are supposed to have lived, in the first ages of Christianity, and whose real history, founded on fact or tradition, has been so disfigured by poetical embroidery that they have in some sort the air of ideal beings."

The one I suppose would be called the very beau-ideal, not of woman, but of the French womanthe other the ideal, not even of the Jewess, but of the German Jewess.

The one I suppose would be called the very beau-ideal, not of woman, but of the French womanthe other the ideal, not even of the Jewess, but of the German Jewess.