The Earth is ne'er so sweet as when it seems By intuition to the soul like Heaven, And in the spirit earthliness dissolves Like mist before the sunshine.
After that surely there was nothing before a broken-hearted Prothero but to go on with his trailing wing to Trinity and a life of inappeasable regrets; but again Benham reckoned without the invincible earthliness of his friend.
Of course, the earthliness may not be manifest as before; "hewers of wood and drawers of water" they become, yet they are there and live there.
This earthliness and carnality of our hearts makes them like the earth, receive only the light in the upper and outward superfice, and not suffer it to be transmitted into our hearts to change them.
Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace, Each stain of earthlinesshad passed away.
Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace, Each stain ofearthliness Had passed away, it reassumed Its native dignity, and stood Immortal amid ruin.
Even the earthliness of Mr. Glynn had brought her no comfort or security.
For there was a pleasant earthlinessabout him which made him restful company.
Though His words were meant for earth, for human ears and for human hearts, there was no earthliness about them.
It is not a few but scores of this sect who have the ear of the public and even in religious publications are allowed to convey hints of earthliness and atheism.
And the business of this nation was of so sacred a kind that neglect of it meant great moral fault and every fresh relapse into earthliness and sensuality after a revival of religion implied more serious guilt.
