The rich concords which bring The Merchant of Venice to a close symbolise, as it were, the feeling of inward wealth and equipoise to which he had now attained.
His first inaugural is a masterpiece of intellectual equipoise and energy.
It was royally deliberate, the issue of prolonged reflection, the goal of mental equipoise and rest to which his searching, balanced thought had long conduced.
The/ balance or equipoise of parts in the human body is of two sorts, viz.
A figure/ standing upon its feet without motion, will form an equipoise of all its members round the centre of its support.
Religion rests with them upon a certain intellectual acquiescence, or upon the equipoise of rational probabilities, or on the compromise of intellectual hesitations.
It is the reward of qualities, it gives no more than it gets, it exists by an equal equipoise of service.
If thisequipoise is disturbed its obligations are dissolved.
All these separate claims, embodied in five distinct parties, Lord Aberdeen has delicately balanced and fixed in a temperate equipoise by the machinery of his bill.
I expected to be even more interested in the essay on "The Equipoise of Passion," remembering the intense character of his amatory verse.
The equipoise of speech or of raiment or of appetite was within the grasp of an average human being, but only a few spirits in a generation enjoyed the perfection of love.
I used to believe in having a good time, and all that sort of nonsense; but I've come to see that what he calls equipoise is the true road to happiness, and that it's best to leave off a bit hungry if you want to live to a green old age.
It is not so much an exact equipoise that he desires, as a certain tendency of the scales to dip in his direction.
An uneasyequipoise between the Great Powers represented the highest culmination of our diplomatic efforts.
They seemed to be a sudden focussing of the laughter and weeping previously mentioned, rather than, what they were meant to be, a natural and necessary equipoise showing the inner life of Keats as contrasted with his outer life.
Indeed, the figure used therein as an equipoise to "the hindward charms" satirises perfectly the style of writing characterised by inflated thought and imagery.
He weighs matters in scales which will only keep their equipoise at the place of the seat of government; and, if I may say so, require their equipoise to be kept up by casting on the golden weights of political expediency.
I am in hopes a cup of tea and a night's rest will restore my equipoise of mind and body.
As versatile as Sarmiento, though not so voluminous, he displays in general a juster appreciation of facts and a greater equipoise and a more even excellence in literary form.
For its essence resides in the delicate equipoise it creates between the three powers, the ministry, the House of Commons, and the people.
The repose and equipoise of nature of which I have spoken appears in the fields of grain no less than in the turf and foliage.
The cathedral of Tours is the personification of the equipoise of Touraine's art, and its storied windows are notable.
That paralysis of Hamlet's will which followed when the evidence of two worlds hung in equipoise before him, no one can possibly understand better than I.
Both are intelligent natures endued with the power of self-motion, and the same equipoise is maintained in both.
A gale of wind came next, singularly enough from another direction, as if to restore the equipoise of the atmosphere.
The equipoise designed to be secured in the National Legislature by the House of Commons was defeated because the House was at once dependent and corrupt.
But in modern civilization a third element has been added, which has brought these two powers of Northern freedom and Southern culture into equipoise and harmony.
Weigher of the equipoise of Heaven and Earth, we acknowledge your might; we give you thanks eternally.
There has crept into our minds once more the feeling that the Universe is all of a piece, Equipoise supreme; and all things equally wonderful, and mysterious, and valuable.
For by Art alone can true harmony in human affairs be fostered, true Proportion revealed, and true Equipoise preserved.
His judgment was rarely at fault, for his intellect was not swerved by passion or prejudice, but was held in perfect equipoise to receive the truth on both sides of every question.
