It mingled in every feverish dream, became the embodiment of every vision.

The axiom of ancient science, "that the corruption of one thing is the birth of another," had its popular embodiment in the notion that a seed dies before the young plant springs from it; a belief so widespread and so fixed, that Saint Paul appeals to it in one of the most splendid outbursts of his fervid eloquence: "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.

He feels that the embodiment before him is the record of a great Past, as well as the reflection of a proud Present,a Past in which the soul has ever borne on through and above all obstacles of discouragement and temptation to a success which was its inheritance.

He begins to give his idea physical embodiment by making with a pencil-point, lines on a plane (a piece of paper), the third dimension being represented by means of the other two.

'How can we better glorify the worker than by delighting in his work?' 'Ah!' sighed the lady, 'why trust to these self-willed methods, and neglect the noble and exquisite forms which the Church has prepared for us as embodiments for every feeling of our hearts?' 'EVERY feeling, Miss Lavington?' Argemone hesitated.

CURTAIN Part Three Dethronements IMAGINARY PORTRAITS OF POLITICAL CHARACTERS, DONE IN DIALOGUE Preface The written dialogue, as interpretative of character, is but a form of portraiture, no more personally identified with its subject than drawing or painting; nor can it claim to have more verisimilitude until it finds embodiment on the stage.

FROM THE EPISTLE TO CURIO [With this earlier and finer form of Akenside's address to the unstable Pulteney (see biographical sketch above) must not be confused its later embodiment among his odes; of which it is 'IX: to Curio.'

Except it be Milton's, there is not any prose fuller of grand poetic embodiments than Lord Bacon's.

Later on he had a passion for the sea-coast, and for those scenes of storm and stress about the seagirt shores of old England which he was so feelingly and with such poetic beauty to depict in "Sea Dreams," and in those incomparable songs, embodiments at once of sorrow and of faith, 'Break, break, break,' and 'Crossing the Bar.'