But as we go homewards, we involuntarily look down to see whether we are really treading upon the earth, wondering, perhaps, that we should be content to do so, when it would be so easy to soar above the house-tops.

Well, the iron bars have gone, but the stone walls remain, and make, if not a prison, something very like a purdah; and the "angels alone that soar above" are almost as much cut off from the inferior beings below them as they were before Sir ALFRED MOND came to the rescue of Beauty in thrall.

The delegates hoped to establish a Manual Labor College at New Haven that Negroes might there acquire that "classical knowledge which promotes genius and causes man to soar up to those high intellectual enjoyments and acquirements which place him in a situation to shed upon a country and people that scientific grandeur which is imperishable by time, and drowns in oblivion's cup their moral degradation.

Should in the ether soar, As if no care would ever find, No sorrow reach them more; When soon an arrow from below Should wound them in their flight, And many a crimson drop should flow Before they fell in sight.

While in this half-despairing breast, Love builds a little, quiet nest, To hover o'er with joyous wing, Nay, sometimes soar aloft and sing!

The finest birds are always shy, The rarest at a distance fly, And Reason cannot soar so high.

Culture furnishes an excellent pair of wings wherewith to soar in skies of abstraction, but is a poor vehicle to carry one over rough roads.

On all hands I began to see blazing structures soar, with grand hurrahs, on high.

But now I know my unassisted wit Is all too weak to make me soar so high, For pardon, lady, for this fault I cry, And wiser still I grow, remembering it.

Who dies, Hath but Love's plumes whereby to soar above!

For this reason, he employed in the construction of S. Peter's those stupendous orders which out-soar the columns of Baalbec, and those grandiose curves which make the cupola majestic.

It is situated in a pleasant meadow, to the north of the town, watered by the river Soar, whence it acquired the name of St. Mary de Pratis, or de la Pré.

He possessed not the refinements of education; he had not learned to soar into the regions of fancy, his destiny was upon the earth; and he knew no flight but that which bears the soul to heaven.

Compounds of this kind, in most instances, follow verbs, and are consequently reckoned adverbs; as, To go astray,To turn aside,To soar aloft,To fall asleep.

Now upward will he soar, And, little less than angel, would be more.

Just as perhaps he mused, "My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once

They soar to rule the hearts of their worshippers, and secure obedience by the sceptre of affection....

Though laden with delight, how lightly The wanderer heavenward still could soar, And aye the ways of life how brightly The airy Pageant danced before!

Would'st thou soar heavenward on its joyous wing?

Amid the light And harmony of this enchanting scene, 'Tis sweet to have a temple that recalls The heart from earth's turmoil, and hallows it With hopes that soar beyond the flight of time.

that points us to the sky, Loosens from earth, that we may soar on high.

Sir Smees," so the Italians called Raoul, out of courtesy still, it being awkward for them, after all that had passed, to address him by his real name"Sir Smees will excuse us for a few minutes; perhaps it may serve to amuse him to hear to what a flight the imagination of a subtle-minded man can soar.

But if Bob should play him to a standstill by exhausting his selling power, Sugar would quickly soar to even higher figures than before.

Is it a wrong to compel His creature to soar aloft into the ether of its origin, and find its deepest, its only true self?

The figure of the Virgin seemed to soar in the air, and it was difficult to think the clouds were not in motion.