And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life-breath of all society, but an effluence of Hero-worship, submissive admiration for the truly great?
Is it not a recognition of the fact that these holy personages diffuse their personality in the form of a visible emanation, which reminds us of Milton's definition of light: "Bright effluence of bright essence increate"?
How near the mystic effluence of mechanical energy brings us to the divine source of all power and motion!
Is it strange that this mysterious influence or effluence should belong especially or exclusively to the period of complete womanhood in distinction from that of immaturity or decadence?
Sometimes, after a long night's watching, he looks so pale and worn, that one would think the cold moonlight had stricken him with some malign effluence such as it is fabled to send upon those who sleep in it.
But as the sun is only an emanation from the first great fountain of light and glory, so love is but an effluence from the eternal source of love divine.
That effluence cannot be easily considered in abstraction from his personality,--being indeed the very radiance and aroma of his personality, projected from it but not separated.
And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
Thou art enshrined In a too primal innocence for this eye - Intent on such untempered radiancy - Not to be pained; my clay can scarce endure Ungrieved theeffluence near of essences so pure.
It may be the divine element within him which has given him the victory, but this is conceived as the mereeffluence of that subtle material force which moves under all the phenomena of physical Nature.
The human form, as the chosen tabernacle of an effluence of the Divine Spirit, might well seem to Dion and Maximus the noblest and most fitting symbol of religious worship.
And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the sun?
In this way a man becomes spiritually enlightened, for the grace of God abides, like a fountain in the unity of the spirit; and these rivers create in the faculties of the soul an effluence of all the virtues.
And they have an eternaleffluence by the birth of the Son, in a difference with distinction, according to the eternal reason.
Creation, then, is the effluence of the loving heart of God.
There is an effluence of power and light pervading all his works, and a freshness such as we feel in the glorious dawn of Chaucer.
That account also places the creation of animals before that of man, whom it represents as being formed of the dust of the earth, and as receiving a divine effluence from the Creator.
He leaves it for the believer in theistic evolution to show when and where and how the Divine effluence is introduced.
And many more, whose names on earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die, &c.
And many more, whose names on earth are dark But whose transmitted effluence cannot die So long as fire outlives the parent spark, Rose, robed in dazzling immortality.
Now, as the healing lymph of her effluence flowed through him, he knew how destroyed he was, like a plant whose tissue is burst from inwards by a frost.
All his veins, that were murdered and lacerated, healed softly as life came pulsing in, stealing invisibly in to him as if it were the all-powerful effluence of the sun.
It was a certain pure effluence of maleness, like an aroma from his softly, firmly moulded contours, a certain rich perfection of his presence, that touched her with an ecstasy, a thrill of pure intoxication.
For the tertiary values, the emotions attached to a given image, the moral effluence emanating from it, pervade the whole present world.
O Thou, Holy and Ineffable, around whose throne the pure souls of sinless little ones float as aneffluence of Thy love, grant to the soul of our infant King, Thy joy perpetual.
As Longinus phrases it, we seem to be possessed by a divine effluence from those mighty minds.
Some raillery follows; and at length Socrates is induced to reply, 'that colour is the effluenceof form, sensible, and in due proportion to the sight.
