What can be comparable in all the mythologies past and present, to the rapt scientific contemplation of celestial grandeurs and the sublime movements of nature?
After showing us the private grandeurs of their own estate, they motored us to the coördinated splendors of their club.
O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
But through all the reverses of the one, and the climbing grandeurs of the other, the friendship between the two men was unbroken.
But you see, after one's ideals of life have been exalted by such alcoves you must not expect Stella to fall quite prostrate before the grandeurs of Melbourne society.
Thy spacious grandeurs rise Faming the proudest zone Pavilioned by the skies; Day's flying glory breaks Thy vales and mountains o'er, And gilds thy streams and lakes From ocean shore to shore.
I could not know that these grandeurs would not turn your young head--it would be only natural.
But whether she had the vision or not, this act showed that after all the dizzy grandeurs that had come upon her, she was still the same simple, unselfish creature that she was that day.
Round this lake, in a zone of varying depth, towered the whole grandeurs of the Pagan earth.
The grandeurs of astronomy are such to him who has a capacity for being grandly moved.
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams.
His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags.
It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation.
In the very background of these grandeursexisted the confirmation of the idea he was so vainly trying to express.
Bianchon and Rastignac were right; when a man can join the grandeurs of the ideal and the enjoyments of human passion in loving a woman of perfect manners, of intellect, of delicacy, it must be happiness beyond words.
Pendle is to the latter just what Cobden Edge is to Marple--a brow upon which the former grandeurs seem diminished to a fifth.
When at Whalley, of course we ascend the Nab, that beautiful tree-clad hill which overlooks the abbey, and gives the first taste of the landscape grandeurs to be enjoyed later on from the crest of Pendle.
On the top, all the grandeursof Marple Ridge are renewed five-fold.
He is familiar with all the grandeurs of our earth.
All other truths depend on this Truth, as all other loves depend on this love, and all other grandeurs on this grandeur.
The glories of Greece and the grandeurs of Rome, as savouring of the classical, appealed only to a few; other eclectics fed upon German mysticism and the fantastic weirdness of Hoffmann's supernatural tales.
I cannot imagine why, because I was never in my life much impressed by grandeurs which proceed from the accident of birth.
It is more irregular and ancient than Belgravia, and its grandeurshave a more casual air.
In all his life he had never before paid much heed to female loveliness, any more than to the grandeurs and splendours of nature, or anything beyond the narrow boundary of his own successful commonplace existence.
She had accompanied her mistress on the honeymoon tour, and had been dazed and not a little terrified by the wonders of Swiss landscape and the grandeurs of fallen Rome.
We find that this is the true way to the "topless grandeurs" themselves, for those topless grandeurs are not without us but within.
But had you asked him if he was still avid for those topless grandeurs and starry majesties he would have said, "It is enough.
All the pomps and grandeurs which religion, which the grave, which the popular superstition had gathered about the subject of apparitions, are here converted to his purpose, and bend to one awful effect.
Raoul Nathan is a fair type of the Parisian literary youth of the day, with its false grandeurs and its real misery.
When, in his capacity as enemy to the new dynasty, Raoul was introduced in the salon of Madame de Montcornet, his apparent grandeurs were flourishing.
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