But in the resurrection of the mass of hidden music, and of the dying traditions of dances, a web of extraordinary beauty is suddenly revealed--a matter of real importance.
Nor must I forget his plan of marking, by means of a hidden apparatus, the beauty of the women he met in the streets of different towns.
I do not imagine that I now remember any of it, but it gave me some idea of the beauty of literature, which I hardly gained at all from the classics.
Those great generalisations, the laws of gravity and the laws of evolution, or the laws of chemical combination, have a beauty and dignity which appeal to everyone.
When Priscilla rose in her turn and spoke, with downcast eyes, he felt the beauty and simplicity of her religious life.
Her beauty was so remarkable that those who had the ill-luck to come across the spectre could not refrain from gazing at it, and all who did so were believed to have died either at the same moment or soon afterwards.
Appenines, rose just over Tivoli, adding to the beauty of the scene.
In short, there are but few amongst us who, in scholarship, learning, observation or facility and beauty of expression, may claim to be ranked with William Wirt.
On the very beauty and glory of its ordinances, may not the spirit proudly rest, and go no more forth to the work of benevolence, nor spread its wing at the call of faith?
Once when you preached at me you said that beauty was my curse.
But if that Beauty Steele come back alive, what would happen it?
He had not noticed that her eyes were like hungry fires, eating up her face--eating away its roundness, and leaving a pathetic beauty behind.
Something had waked in the odd soul ofBeauty Steele.
Beauty Steele was under the eyes of another self, and neither disdain, nor contempt, nor the passive stare, were available.
She was lifted up by the abandonment of the verse, by the fulness of her own feelings, which had only needed a touch of beauty to give it exaltation.
Inside the tailor-shop, a voice kept saying, "More airs thanBeauty Steele!
She is not marry to the other man,' I say, 'if Beauty Steele is.
Grown a woman in beauty and in stature; comely--comely as a lady in a Watteau picture, my dear messieurs!
If the sloping sides are brought up to a blunt point, as in cut (c) there is very much less loss of light and greater beauty results.
As the scarcity of fine specimens and their great beauty make a fairly high price necessary, the public would hardly pay it for anything that was called "garnet," as garnets are regarded as common and cheap.
The extreme beauty and value of the emerald has led to its use in the finest jewels, and the temptation is strong to set it in rings, especially in rings for ladies.
Cabochon cut stones, however, have a quiet beauty of color which commends them to people of quiet taste, and even fine rubies, sapphires, and emeralds are increasingly cut cabochon to satisfy the growing demand for fine taste in jewels.
Precious opal" is distinguished from "common opal" by the beauty of its display rather than by any difference in composition.
The structure and material of the true pearl must be first understood in order to understand the underlying reasons for the remarkable beauty of this gem.
The great beauty of the opal, rivaling any mineral in its color-play, causes us to chance the risk of damage in order to mount it where its vivid hues may be advantageously viewed by the wearer as well as by others.
Some rather hard minerals are seldom or never used as gems, in spite of considerable beauty and hardness, because of their great brittleness.
We must now consider how the "fire" or prismatic color play is produced, for it is even more upon the display of fire than upon its pure white brilliancy that the beauty of a diamond depends.
A voyage to the South Seas and the West Indies under Bligh, in the Providence, in 1791, had revealed to his imagination the glory of discovery and the vastness and beauty of the world beyond European horizons.
It is also the chief seat of beauty and of ugliness, and throughout the world is the most ornamented.
In England, finally, Vernon Lee and Anstruther Thompson have founded a theory of beauty and ugliness upon this same psychical impulse to copy in our own unconscious movements the forms of objects.
She realised dimly from him that her dress was as beautiful as she had hoped it might be, but what was the use of itsbeauty if Julien should be missing?
Yet happy--for I see beauty in everything, in the world, upon strange faces, in nights and days.
Beyond her the white plains of beauty shone outside the window.
But the beauty of the construction was and is its durability, or rather the permanence of its oaken ribs!
It was a strange spectacle--these things ofbeauty and joy, and beside them the chained gangs of fierce and savage Convicts, kept down only by bullet and sword!
It was a beauty with olive-green back, shading down the sides to white with spots of black and red.
Early the next morning he was up and dressed, and just before sunrise stepped out on the wooden staging at Falls View, listening to the voice and seeing for the first time the beauty and grandeur of Niagara.
It is one of the deplorable effects of war that it so cruelly diminishes the beauty of our public and communal life.
All the best elements of a great and glorious ceremonial were displayed--colour and form and ordered motion; noble music set to stirring words; and human voices lifted even above their ordinary beauty by the emotion of a high occasion.
We all can recall disasters and disappointments which have overcast the spring, and tidings of achievement or deliverance which have been happily out of keeping with the melancholy beauty of autumn.
And yet, and in spite of all this, beauty retains its sway over "the common heart of man.
Such, or something like it, is the traditional aspect of our fair English land; but to-day she wears her beauty with a difference.
Even war cannot destroy, though it may temporarily obscure, the beauty of Nature; and the beauty of Art is only waiting for the opportunity of Peace to reassert itself.
As she danced sparks ofbeauty fell from her on all around but him; she did not see him; it was clear she never would see him.
He spent a fortnight trying to find out who his beauty was; he never could encounter her again.
Her beauty had so completely fascinated him when he first saw her that the idea of associating any want of refinement and good breeding with such a charming creature never entered his mind.
Objects of beauty surrounded her, which glowed with subdued radiance from their background of sober colour.
Valour and beauty deigned to laugh at some inflamed humbug or other punctured by "Punch.
During our ride from the station, I was struck, of course, only by the general neatness of the houses and the beauty of the elm-trees lining the streets.
Very dear to me was the sight of that slender, pale woman passing from room to room, and lending a patient grace and beauty to the saddened life of the old house.
Upon her head a platted hive of straw, Which fortified her visage from the sun, Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw The carcase of a beauty spent and done.
Time had not scythed all that youth begun, Nor youth all quit; but, spite of Heaven's fell rage Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear'd age.
That "The Pearls of the Mouth," according to an Eastern expression, are a great adjunct to the beauty of the face nobody will dispute.
We live, it may be, near places of beautyand interest.
A fine silver point in a well-made frame of this kind is indeed one of those things of beauty which are joys for ever.
It is as well to avoid all firm hard outlines, as silver point mainly depends for its beauty on its misty and shadowy effects.
What beauty now could stand beside thatbeauty that had shone when she was young?
But to-day he was reckless; the heat of the afternoon and now the beauty of the evening had both, in their different ways, contributed to his ill-temper.
Then a certain Mrs. Pont, a lady whose beauty had been increased but her reputation lessened by several scandals and a tiresomely querulous Mr. Pont, had suggested to Francis Breton a continuation of certain earlier relationships.
It is a life of beauty and intelligence and luxury.
The beautyof her eyes will never disappear; the grace of her least gesture will remain--but the hard bitterness, the desperate expression is hers too.
He seldom thinks of all that her condition means; and sometimes almost forgets that anything unaccustomed is or will be,--made forgetful by Helen's beauty and charm and brightness.
As she was not expecting him, she was not dressed to receive him, a circumstance in which he rejoiced mightily, her careless costume seeming in his eyes to set off her beauty ravishingly.
He said it as though wholly engrossed with that one thought--that my beauty and charm are valuable to him as a means by which to accomplish, instead of being things dear to him for their own sake, because they belong to him.
That rarebeauty which Dusk may bring to the Metropolis was that evening vouchsafed.
In some dudgeon, I blew a small jug of great beauty on to a carved prie-dieu, to which it adhered as though made of some slimy substance.
Against this coloured background and that of the West-end stage is the story of the men who craved her for her beauty alone.
Pretty soon Penny'll get round to him, and give him a good washing, a Beauty Bird, and feed him something real good.
Today everything's creative, including beauty culture, business letters, and the application of new superlatives to old laxatives.
Mrs. Kleinman was crying and, rather surprisingly, the cool black-haired beauty Dolores Acevedo.
The third picture was one taken at the morgue, after rigor had passed off, and though the face was still a comment on the brevity, the insecurity of beauty and warmth, Ann's no longer vulnerable nakedness conveyed no great sorrow.
Edith met and acknowledged his look across the anonymous crowd--yes, she would be remembering that water garden, and its end, untouchable beautytransformed to a pathetic mess for the janitor to remove.
The black-haired beauty was showing no more emotion at present than Mr. Fielding.
As for beauty and glamor, the prosecution would introduce other photographs of Ann Doherty that were no pretty portraits.
Most persons will conclude that her beautyis not even "skin deep.
While, therefore, you are keenly alive to the presentbeauty of the scene, it speaks to you, at every turn, of the past.
In women I love beauty above all things, and in the history of mankind, culture expressed in carpets, carriages with springs, and keenness of wit.
Yet even here, where the general beauty is undoubted, is not the music too obvious?
They made the soul sensible of attachments deeper than the conscious mind's ideals, whether of beauty or goodness.
The difference, the sense of departure, is perhaps most apparent in this, that he knows his beauty is not beautiful, and his home no home at all.
It may be interesting to you to pick out some lines from "Hyperion" and a mark + to the false beauty proceeding from art and one || to the true voice of feeling.
They appealed to some other element than their own sense of beauty for the final verdict on their discovery; they asked whether it was just or good.
There is no undertone of anguish in his work like that which gives such poignant and haunting beauty to Tchehov.
If nature created more of them, beauty would receive less adulation; but as it appears only at rare intervals, it attracts more notice.
