This is the most perfect fruit of philosophy to familiarize and lead her back to things truly beautiful, to liberate her from this terrene abode as from a certain subterranean cavern of material life, elevate her to ethereal splendors, and place her in the islands of the blessed.

Hence, while they are thus doubly impure, it is as impossible for them to perceive the splendors of truth, as for an eye buried in mire to survey the light of day.

The silent hours move swiftly on, With many a blessed vision laden, That all the night has softly shone Upon the hearts of youth and maiden; And now, in golden splendors drest, The new-born day is gladly breaking,

my eyes grow dim, And floods of golden glories seem to swim, Wave upon wave, through all the cloudless blue, Blinding me with their sunny splendors quite, So that, amid the pure excess of light, But vaguest visions faintly glimmer through.

Would that my very life could lighten space, Shining out like some constellation bright, Back beating all the myrmidons of Night, With starry splendors flashing sword and spear!

my fervid brain Calls up the vanished Past again, And throws its misty splendors deep Into the pallid realms of sleep!

In such passages Milton's prose is, as Taine suggests, "an outpouring of splendors," which suggests the noblest poetry.

But the scenes, the splendors of heaven, the horrors of hell, the serene beauty of Paradise, the sun and planets suspended between celestial light and gross darkness, are pictured with an imagination that is almost superhuman.

Ancelot, commenting upon her excellent friend's strange confidence,"it was the secret of her whole life that she thus revealed to us in a moment of abandon,the secret of an existence that tried still to reflect the splendors of the Imperial epoch, and that was at the same time perplexed and tormented by all the thousand small miseries of pecuniary embarrassment.

In the short space of time spanned by a single life, as if by "the touch of the enchanter's wand," the people have built a government before which the mightiest realms of the earth pale their splendors as do the stars of night before the refulgent glory of the coming day.

Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come.

Freed from all oppressive engagements, he gave himself to the study of ancient sculpture and architecture, reveled in the splendors of Renaissance painting, and pursued his botanical studies in the enticing plant-world of the Italian gardens.

And so she stood, drinking in at her eyes all the shifting and melting splendors of the marvelous scene, with her thought busy, once more, in its own questioning.

His dominions, which he has inherited from a long line of ancestorsI believe he traces his ancestry back to the godsinclude the ancient City of Golconda, whose name for centuries was a synonym for riches and splendors.

Identifying himself completely with his rôle as precursor, he found perfect happiness in effacing himself in the glory of Christ, just as the dawn disappears in the splendors of the morning.

We may make our boast that a single human soul is of more value than all the splendors and immensities of matter; but in our actions we treat the boast as a mere rhetorical expression.

With that book Gustavus Vasa was to protect and nurture the freedom of the land of flowing splendors, while Angelo was transcribing sacred scenes upon the Sistine vault or fixing them in stone.

Splendors and miseries of Evelyn Waugh.

all awful and sublime, Arm'd close in stately, nervous rhyme, With wheeling chariot, towering crest And Amazonian splendors drest!

But, in the journey, drawing near To what I mourn, and what I fear, The sad realities impress Too deeply; hues of happiness, And gleams of splendors past, decay; The storm despoiling such a day, Gives to the eye no clear, full scope, But scatters wide the wrecks of Hope!

For in treating the parable, our aim was to teach the hearers this lesson, that they should regard all the splendors of the present life as nothing, but should look forward in their hopes, and daily reflect on the decisions which will be hereafter pronounced, and on that fearful judgment, and that Judge who can not be deceived.

My splendors are menagerie; But their competeless show Will entertain the centuries When I am, long ago, An island in dishonored grass, Whom none but daisies know. XXVIII.

I sometimes believe, thinking on these things, that we have inherited from our father Adam a habit of day-dreaming; that in this exile of coarse and work-day life our heated brows are sometimes fanned with breezes from some half-remembered Araby the Blest, and there instinctively come over us such visions of beatitude that the Paradise we have lost is recalled to us, and we live once more among the dreamy and grateful splendors of Eden.

But Splendors wane.

She felt painful doubts as to whether the splendors opposite had not so entirely engrossed public attention that no eye was left to observe any thing elseat least, in that street.