The glory of an earthly diadem was as nothing to him, and he had all that deep love for his fellow men which often characterizes those who know that their time on earth is short.
Sir, she is as pure as an angel,” cried young Esmond.
Esmond’s mistress had a thousand faults beside her charms: he knew both perfectly well!
We are to be tolerated; we are not to be persecuted.
All my earthly ambition--my sole hope, would be accomplished on the day that such an union took place.
Not many weeks after the removal from this earthly sphere of the evidence of Lady Caroline’s frailty, Lord Hartley returned home from abroad; and his first act, on arriving in London, was to hasten to Hanover Square.
The throne is worm-eaten--its velvet is in holes and covered with dust: and no earthly power can repair the wood nor patch up the cloth.
What earthly connexion can exist between Tom Rain and the young nobleman who wants to borrow money?
Like Breughel's "Pays de Cocagne," they described an earthly paradise far more distant than the heavenly one.
Then I had only to rest on the rosy clover-carpet at the foot of the tree, and the tall grass eclipsed all things earthly save the tree, and the sky overhead, and the round mat of clover under the tree which the grass ringed about.
Billington When free from earthlytoil and thrall of pain, Time's transient guest, One large of heart and finely quick of brain Found early rest.
Fire thus obtained is called by the Chinese heavenly fire, and its use is enjoined in sacrifices; whereas fire elicited by the friction of wood is termed by them earthly fire, and its use is prescribed for cooking and other domestic purposes.
And his resolution was as immovable as ever to let no earthly consideration tempt him into betraying Miss Gwilt.
That excellent advice given, your doctor leaves you to spare yourself all earthly annoyances by your own unaided efforts, until he calls again.
The greater part of it (as repeated to me) was of no earthly importance.
If the favoring circumstances which have driven me thus far drive me on to the end, and if that old man's last earthly conviction is prophetic of the truth, Armadale will escape me, do what I may.
No earthly consideration," answered Neelie, indignantly, "would induce me to be married by a blacksmith!
What earthlyneed had he of the good opinion of the resident gentry?
I know thee not, and can serve thee little, and need no earthly aid.
The emotion of his young and ardent breast was perhaps almost too holy, too condensed, to be termed joy; but it was one so powerful, so blessed, that all of earth and earthly care was lost before it.
He knew a terrific storm was raging round him, but it drew him not from earthly thoughts and earthly feelings, even while it raised his soul in prayer.
Father, reproach me not as mistrusting the gracious heaven in whose keeping lie our earthly fates.
A few brief hours, and all of earth and earthly feeling is at rest.
She was beautiful, more beautiful than an earthly woman, and her glance indicated the higher power of the mother of God, like that of Raffaelle's Mary in the Dresden Gallery.
Fate will deprive me of my earthly bliss," replied Ali.
Can a child of heaven adapt herself to the narrow circle which a miserable earthly necessity has drawn?
Do we know the nature, talent, or power, which these millions of differently constituted souls possess, after having shaken off their earthly frame?
He hastened to buy a beautiful guitar, and impatiently awaited the hour which should again reveal to him his earthly Paradise.
At this he smiled and rose, saying, as he retired: "This earthly nature must be purified.
It is notearthly tribunals you have to fear, but another and more severe one; for you have sold your soul to the evil one.
He who has attempted the heavenly, feels earthly pain for ever.
Friendship and love belong only to mortal man; he shares them neither with angels nor the animal creation; they are the offspring of the union of the earthly and divine nature within us: they constitute the privilege of man.
What earthly good could you do on the water that Captain Sullivan couldn't do just as well without you?
He's got no earthly business to think of such a thing.
One feels so safe and happy; so free from fear and care; like a little child whose loving earthly father is holding it by the hand or in his strong, kind arms.
But no notice was taken of it; the would-be murderers were never called to account till they appeared before a greater than an earthly tribunal.
You say you love to be alone with me, your earthly father; I trust the time will come when you will love far better to be alone with your heavenly Father.
He was the one barrier between her and earthly heaven.
Besides, what is an earthly sovereignty, subjected to so much labour and exposed to so many dangers, compared to that which you enjoy?
When the fairest of all earthly things was mouldering in the dust, should he not have freed himself from the entanglements of the less beauteous things remaining?
He stood at its summit, in the earthly Paradise, the Garden of Eden which Eve had lost.
There is a tender and touching simplicity in the records of their earthly lives which the gentle souls in Purgatory give to our poet.
Then on the succeeding circles are punished those whose sin was excessive and ill-regulated love of earthly things.
Dante is about to enter the circles in which the inordinate love of earthly things, with all vain and vicious indulgence, is punished.
Surely it is a deep and holy truth, under whatever varying forms succeeding ages may embody it, that the faithful love of a pure soul does more than any other earthly power to hasten the passage of the penitent through Purgatory.
I am here above most earthly annoyances, and on a level with the heavenly influences.
She was arrayed in bridal garments, and decked with a chaplet of white flowers, but her heart evidently revolted at this mockery of a spiritual union, and yearned after its earthly loves.
The whole scene is as vivid in my mind as any earthly landscape.
We may not be able to explain why servile imitation of nature degrades art and degrades woman, but both deteriorate without an ideal so high that there is no earthly model for it.
Our newspapers every day are loaded with accidents, casualties, and crimes concerning people of whom we never heard before and never shall hear again, the reading of which is of no earthly use to any human being.
If ever man took large and eager hold of earthly things and appropriated them to his own use, it is the American.
Upon a raised dais at one side sits the presiding genius of the place, who rules very much as Jupiter was supposed to govern the earthly swarms, by letting things run and occasionally launching a thunderbolt.
My task becomes inexpressibly painful as the year draws near that which sealed our earthly fate, and each poem, and each event it records, has a real or mysterious connection with the fatal catastrophe.
All earthly things that dare 25 Her sacred name to bear, Strip them, as kings are, bare; God save the Queen!
Yet dare not stain with wealth or power A poet's free and heavenly mind: 20 If bright chameleons should devour Any food but beams and wind, They would grow asearthly soon As their brother lizards are.
There are pleasant shades, wild beasts, and leafy groves; there flow deep cool streams; there the eye can rest with delight upon the greater part of this earthly paradise which we salute by the name of Tuscany.
He had scattered the shrine at which she worshipped with soft and durable perfumes, and had set up sacred symbols; and he had said, "Kneel before these; cast down all your worldly wishes and earthly affections.
It was part of his plan, thought Walter, that she must neither marry nor form any other earthly tie; for was it not through her, and such as her, that his beloved Church was able to sustain its full prestige?
Do I understand you to say that you suspect me of injuring my poor uncle, whom I loved above all earthly things?
But we encountered no one, for the bushrangers had apparently fallen back upon the main body, convinced that the coast was clear of all earthly intruders.
The sisters of charity moved among the throng with grave, pale faces, mere shadows of their earthly selves, as though they had undergone the first stage of the great metamorphosis which is promised.
Above the undulation of land on the horizon were the clouds, like heavenly hills, reflecting their radiance on those earthly elevations.
Unfortunately the miser can not take his acres into Paradise, and the patroon, with many an inward groan, cast about him for some remote relative to whom he would reluctantly transfer his earthly hereditaments.
This mansion, last remnant of its owner's earthly estate, was roomy and spacious, nestling among the oranges and inviting seclusion with its pretentious wall surrounding the grounds.
It is enough to refer to the special affection which the mystics have ever borne toward the Song of Songs,[405] and to note how the most earthly expressions of love in that poem enter as a perpetual refrain into their writings.
Gradually a transformation took place; the love of God was effaced and earthly love became more intense than ever.
Be sure thy friend inhabits a day not out of harmony with this morning of earthly spring, with this sunlight, those rain-drops, that sweet wind that flows so softly over his grave.
Grant that it gave us an immortal earthly existence, one so happy that the most sensual would never wish for death: what would it be by such means to live forever?
A study of the lives of its popes put to shame the statement that they could possibly be the earthly representatives of a Benevolent Being.
Our interplanetary visitor is firmly convinced that all religion, no matter what its antiquity or its modernity may be, is an invention of our groping earthly minds.
The belief in a personal God: The Martian, as our guest, had by this time had ample opportunity to survey our civilization, and to acquaint himself with the things with which God in His goodness had endowed His earthly children.
He found descriptions of the slaughter of men and women and children in air raids, and he naturally concludes that the "providence of God" is an insult to the earthly intelligence.
Having already had some experience with earthly religionists, the Martian is disposed to avail himself of the historical evidence regarding the life of Mohammed.
In Austria the bourgeois parties take advantage of the belief of hundreds of thousands of proletarians in a Lord in Heaven to keep them in subjection to their earthly masters.
However, the Martian argues, "Is it not a fact that in your earthly experience, you have created your gods in your own image?
Such theories impress our visitor as but a feeble attempt at new concepts of the same hypothetical deity, and it seemed to him that we already had sufficient ideas of God to trouble our earthly minds.
Michael, as the avenging spirit, stands a powerful figure in the foreground dividing the saved from the lost; the whole composition forming a heavenward cross on an earthly foundation.
The face of the Genius was calm and soft; and only by the lowering of the hand do you see that the torch burns out, and that the image too serene for earthly love is the genius of loving Death.
