Unlike as was the English queen to a fairy queen, we may yet conceive that it was the image of a queen before the poet's mind that called up this splendid court of women.
In such hours we feel so noble, so full of love and bounty, that we cannot conceive how any pain should have been needed to teach us.
You may easily conceiveof the astonishment of the good folks at home.
What is it in the way of social alterations which the player's imagination could conceive of, which his scruples have prevented him from suggesting here?
This is sufficiently explicit, an unprejudiced listener would be inclined to say--indeed, it is difficult to conceive how any more positively instructive exhibition of the subject, could well have been made.
His small brain, his brutish head, could conceive no other.
Hans's suspicion of a hidden sadness in Mirah was not in the direction of his wishes, and hence, instead of distrusting his observation here, Deronda began to conceive a cause for the sadness.
The result was that the uncle felt himself called on to interfere; he did not conceive that he should do his duty in witholding direction from his niece in a momentous crisis of this kind.
Anna, full of tender fears, put her little hand into her cousin's, and Mr. Gascoigne was too kind a man not to conceive something of the trial which this sudden change must be for a girl like Gwendolen.
Grandcourt, coming up with his usual air, as if he did not conceive that there had been any omission on his part.
But how was he to understand or conceive her present repulsion for Henleigh Grandcourt?
But she did not yet conceive that the scale could dip on the wrong side, and it seemed to her only graceful to say, "I shall be very much obliged to you for taking the trouble to give me your advice, whatever it maybe.
But you see I don't wait to begin work: you can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be.
He could not conceive a more perfect girl; and to a youthful lover like Rex it seems that the fundamental identity of the good, the true and the beautiful, is already extant and manifest in the object of his love.
So few people succeed greatly because so few people can conceive a great end, and work towards that end without deviating and without tiring.
Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do is to pleasure you, coz.
To conceive things therefore under the form of eternity, is to conceive them in so far as they are conceived through the essence of God as actually existing things, or in so far as through the essence of God they involve existence.
No more important argument could Spinoza conceive in favor of his doctrine.
It is not only in respect of ignorance that we conceive the state of Nature as prior to, and lacking the Divine revealed law and right; but in respect of freedom also, wherewith all men are born endowed.
God I in no wise subject to fate: I conceivethat all things follow with inevitable necessity from the nature of God, in the same way as every one conceives that it follows from God's nature that God understands Himself.
Moreover, we have shown that the power of God is nothing but the active essence of God, and therefore it is as impossible for us to conceive that God does not act as that He does not exist.
Inordinate conceit alone could conceive Nature to have been made designedly either for our pleasure or our discomfort.
Whether by the natural light of reason we can conceive of God as a lawgiver or potentate ordaining laws for men?
We can conceive a person devoid of all veracity and conscience, writing in a great hurry to a set of imbecile fanatics, perpetrating such stuff and nonsense as the above, but we cannot well conceive any other person guilty thereof.
I can hardly conceive how a man thus built could show such delicacy in the choice of his subjects; how those short, thick fingers could draw such lovely, graceful forms.
It is impossible for any who have not loved as I have to conceive my joy and pride when, after ring and all was done, and the parson had blessed us, Lorna turned to look at me with her glances of subtle fun subdued by this great act.
Conceive such a one thrown into the democratic current by chances of birth, and you will realize the contrasts of environment and character which have led M.
The message may be meant for me, though I can't conceive who sent it.
Who, for instance, could conceive that persons so utterly different in every way as Lady Longden and her daughter, Miss Holmes, could be mother and child?
If your wife were utterly mad I cannot conceive how it came about that she searched you out and spoke to you even in a vision--for the thing was not an individual dream since both you and Savage saw her.
He who can conceive of the one, must be able to embrace the awful image of the other.
It is impossible to conceive that the breath which he is pouring into that horn of his should issue in any other form of sound than that of a gobble.
This box was not to be opened till the return of the vessel; and we can conceive that, in cases where the mariners had had a perilous time of it, this casket would be found to enclose a tolerable offering.
And I cannot conceive on what principle those writers contend for a change of system, who support this opinion.
You can scarcely conceive the tyranny exercised by these wretches: considering themselves as the instruments of the very laws they violate, the pretext which steels their conscience, hardens their heart.
It was impossible for her toconceive any other aim in life.
He could only conceive it, and with the aid of Françoise realize a few rough sketches.
It stifled him: he heard it everywhere, he could no longer close his ears to it, he could no longer conceivethe possibility of there being people with any other thought.
Mary receives the glad tidings that, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, she shouldconceive a Son, the Lord and Saviour of the world.
That is the Old Testament point of view, which could not conceive it possible that any man could have deep and close communion with God, except on condition of a pure character.
I canconceive nothing more unreasonable than the statement sometimes made that it is illogical or even absurd to suppose that highly organized beings could have been produced except by derivation from previously existing organisms.
We may conceive them to have been left to the discretion of the writers; and, in that case, they will merely represent the knowledge of nature actually existing at the time.
If by Atheist, he says, you mean a man who would deny the existence of a force inherent in matter, and without which you cannot conceive nature, and if to this moving force you give the name of God, then an Atheist would be a madman.
How can we conceive the union of body and soul, and how can this material body enclose, bind, constrain, determine a fugitive form of being, that escapes every sense?
Indeed, it is difficult for us, after studying the man thus far, to conceive of him as really quarreling over a sum of money--large or small.
To conceive aright of its office, we must suppose the Chorus to be a number of persons, by some probable cause assembled together, as witnesses and spectators of the great action of the drama.
All that humanity could conceive he did to suppress the cruelties of war and soothe its sorrows.
Do not," he wrote to his nephew in 1783, "conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
The reader will naturally conceive the transports which this delicious billet excited in the worthy Cardinal.
We are at a loss to conceive any good reason why Dr.
Conceive the situation of the bald-pated, cloakless, and tattered Cardinal, as he stood ashamed and terrified before the jeering Prince and his twenty torchbearers.
We can conceive few things more exciting than such a voyage as Mr Werne has accomplished and recorded.
I can conceive thought to be an action of a particular organization of matter, formed for that purpose by its creator, as well as that attraction is an action of matter, or magnetism of loadstone.
If the researches of the Secretary at War should produce any thing proper for communication, and pertinent to any point we can conceivein the defence before the court, it shall be forwarded to you.
Still I conceive the British insults in our harbor as more threatening.
None can conceive who did not witness them, and they were felt by one party only.
That in condemning the administration of the government, they condemned him, for if they thought there were measures pursued contrary to his sentiments, they must conceive him too careless to attend to them, or too stupid to understand them.
This was the result of my reflections on the subject five and forty years ago, and I have never yet been able to conceive any other practicable plan.
General Cocke, you say, will explain them to me; but I cannot conceive them, nor persuade myself they are uncontrollable.
