With blinded, tear-filled eyes she peered into that formless black and burning face and sensed in its soft, sad gleam unfathomed understanding.
Formless as these poems may seem, it is often the floating final impression of power which makes them memorable and valuable, rather than any stray gleam of purple or glitter of pearl on the skirt.
Into the myth of the harrow and horses of Palamabron, more Asiatic in tone than any other of Blake's, and full of the vast proportion and formless fervour of Hindoo legends, we will not haul any reluctant reader.
Few however will be desirous, and none will be wise, to resign for these gigantic shadows of formless and baseless fancy the splendid exposition given by the editor (p.
God spake of old, And over chaos dark and cold, And through the dead and formless frame Of nature, life and order came.
But all these images, with their interpretations, are as unlike the formless truth as a black Ethiopian is to the bright sun.
Then he began to exclaim joyously in spiritual jubilation: Behold, now, Thou whom I most fervently love, thus do I lay bare my heart to Thee, and in simplicity and nakedness of all created things I embrace Thy formless Godhead!
The gondola floated drearily on, a black formless spot in the moonlight.
But neither the symphonic poems of Liszt nor the tone poems of Strauss are formless music.
The form of the old woman suddenly loomed black above them, hovering a moment formless and vast then fading again away, and the "swish-swish" of the falling seed alone rose in the silence of the night.
For yonder where the black earth of the swamp heaved in a formless mound she felt the black arms of Elspeth rising from the sod--gigantic, mighty.
In the same way space or matter is neither earth nor fire nor air nor water, but an invisible and formless being which receives all things, and in an incomprehensible manner partakes of the intelligible.
It would be the characteristic of a great power to make even evils promote the fulfilment of its purposes, to cause formless things to assist in the production of forms.
But how do we know that which is absolutely formless (matter)?
The soul is said to be in hell because the spirit that surrounds her also happens to have a formless and obscure nature; and as the heavy and moistened spirit descends down into subterranean localities, the soul is said to descend underground.
Unity is the self-uniform and formlesssuper form, vi.
This, therefore, demands the existence of something infinite in itself, and formless in itself, which would combine all the characteristics mentioned above as the characteristics of evil.
In the first of these formless heavens (Arupa-loka) are the Aka[.
Why is it that the whole of those monuments, with the single exception of the so-called Observatory of Khorsabad, are now mere heaps of formless dust, fulfilling to the letter the biblical prophecies as to the fate of Nineveh and Babylon?
The foot of every wall is heaped about with such formless masses of brick and brick dust, that it is almost impossible to make full explorations or to take exact measurements.
The fashionable slang is hardly even a language; it is like the formless cries of animals, dimly indicating certain broad, well-understood states of mind.
The river, far below, shone here and there in answer to the moon, while the meadows and fields lay as in the oblivion of sleep, and the wooded hills were only dark formless masses.
Lastly, to fill consciousness, they invent an incomprehensible action of this formless matter upon this matterless thought.
Jagged clouds hanging Formless and black, Hurtle the whirlwind Fast o'er their track; Fiery flashes Scathe the green plain; Cataracts falling In torrents of rain.
Underlying all formed entities is the formless matter, matter and space are infinitely subdivisible (27).
Force or form acts on the formless matter and so produces the ordered universe, outside which no matter exists.
It would be so embarrassing to start a sentence in a friendly whisper, and then have to shout the last half of it because the other party was floating away into the free and formless ether.
Nor do I propose to enter at all into those formless and floundering speculations about how woman was or is regarded in the primitive times that we cannot remember, or in the savage countries which we cannot understand.
If the leaven of unrest, vague and formless as it was at the outset, properly might be said to date from the time of the return of divers black veterans, it took on shape and substance after the advent of one Dr.
There was an essence of a floating, formless resentment there.
Such madness may be but a formless faith-- A chaos which the breath of God will blow Into an ordered world of seed and fruit.
Minister of God's Spirit, who wast sent Waiting upon him first, what time he went Moving about mid the tumultuous noise Of each unpiloted element Upon the face of the void formless deep!
Kind words he speaks--but all the time As from a formless height To which no human foot can climb-- Half-swathed in ancient night.
Would ye all be as I am; and know neither evil nor good; neither life; neither death; Or mix with the void and the formless till all were as one and the same?
Shall I who made the infinite heavens my mark Shrink from this first wild horror of the dark, These formless gulfs, these glooms that crawl?
Up and down the ice-cold corridors of his brain, thought, formless and timeless, passed like a rodent flame.
Something ugly; shall we not say rather something formless transmuted into form!
But the simple beauty of colour arises, when light, which is something incorporeal, and reason and form entering the obscure involutions of matter, irradiates and forms its dark and formless nature.
And this much for the beauties of sense, which, like images and shadows flowing into matter, adorn with spectacles of beauty its formless being, and strike the respective senses with wonder and delight.
Her least formless thoughts were of the evening to come, when she and the Lontaines were to dine with Summerlad in Beverly Hills.
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