His dissertation[142] upon the unfitness of poetry for the aweful subjects of our holy religion, though I do not entirely agree with with him, has all the merit of originality, with uncommon force and reasoning.
Could there be, upon thisaweful subject, such a thing as balancing of accounts?
We shall presently see that when he approached nearer to hisaweful change, his mind became tranquil, and he exhibited as much fortitude as becomes a thinking man in that situation.
He talked to me upon thisaweful and delicate question in a gentle tone, and as if afraid to be decisive.
Nothing can be more romantic and picturesque than this journey, and there is something aweful in shooting these falls; these rafts are, however, so solidly constructed that there is no danger whatever.
The tolling of the bells at the different villages on the banks gives a most aweful solemn religious sound, and the reverberation is prolonged by the high rocks, which seem to shut you out from the rest of the world.
Fine old trees of immense height covered with foliage and thickly studded together give to this forest an aweful and romantic appearance.
In the Sistine Chapel is the celebrated painting al fresco of the day of Judgment by Michel Angelo, an aweful subject and nobly and awefully executed.
A shot in the left eye" sent the reeking soul into the presence of God, whom he, in aweful blasphemy, had promised to take into his own hands.
The aweful shock quickly gave place to a gush of fatherly affection.
Wharton uttered this with a peculiar force of voice, andaweful expression in his countenance.
She learnt the wonder-working name And gave it utterance, and its virtue bore her Up to the glorious Presence, and she told Before the aweful Judgement-Seat, her tale.
Then suddenly was heard The all-beholding Prophet's aweful voice, "Thou hast done well, my Servant!
Was not a flower but sent in incense up Its richest odours, and the song of birds Now, like the music of the Seraphim, Entered her soul, and now Made silence aweful by their sudden pause.
Before their Tent the mat is spread, The old man's awefulvoice Intones[53] the holy Book.
Twilight and moonshine dimly mingling gave An aweful light obscure, Evening not wholly closed, The Moon still pale and faint.
The youth made no reply, Gazing in aweful wonder on the scene.
The Prophet heard his vaunt "And answered with an aweful smile, "Costly thy palace King!
As it was now two hours beyond their usual time of going to bed, the great clock having struck the aweful hour of twelve, Edwin, without stopping to make any comments on the scene that had so recently occurred, instantly took his leave.
But as for Folk-might, his face was yet white and aweful with anger, and he looked restlessly up and down the front of the kindreds, though he spake no word.
There was in his soul anaweful joy, the joy of dawn, the dawn of holy manhood.
They pelted past the lad, bellowing, bleating: a tumult of arms, legs, aweful eyes in aweful faces.
For the first time in his life he felt the aweful and inexorable grip of Necessity; and his heart screamed.
So they knelt in the twilight, hugging close in that aweful sense of loneliness that comes to men when the Gates of Death are seen to swing back to let them through.
An aweful joy seemed beating up through mists in their faces.
His Eyes were the most aweful that could be seen, and very piercing; the White of ’em being like Snow, as were his Teeth.
The nations round with wondering eyes Shall see old England aweful rise As oft she did of yore.
For in that aweful moment would Destiny have thrust her sceptre into the hands of a human being and Chance would have exalted a human being into usurpal of her chair.
In the multitude who witnessed the aweful ceremony of the auto da fè, in the church of St. Dominick, stood the Pundit of Lahore; and he heard with horror the sentence of death pronounced against the Christian Missionary.
The deep-voiced thunders roll, aweful and loud Tho' distant; while upon the misty downs Fast falls in shadowy streaks the pelting rain.
You are too conversant in the world to need the slightest hint from me, of what infinite utility the Speech[415] on the aweful day has been to me.
I missed that aweful reverence with which I used to contemplate MR.
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