I had no other purpose than to heighten the pleasure of laughter by communication, nor ever raised any pecuniary advantage from the calamities of others.
Inferior in body of water to many falls in Switzerland, it is superior to any in sylvan beauty; its deep seclusion, its undisturbed solitude, and the difficulty of access, combine to heighten its charms to the imagination.
This conviction has led me to heighten what are called our epicurean enjoyments, by investigating the history of cookery, the literature of the vineyard, and other cognate branches of learning.
You have devised a happy union of intellectual and sensual pleasure, well calculated to heighten both.
Like Maupassant and Hoffman and Poe, the Russian writers use to a considerable extent the association between insanity and the supernatural to heighten the effect of both.
Melody, which forms so large a part of the effect of supernaturalism in poetry, is here employed to heighten lyric prose.
From this, with some mordant that still remains a secret with them, they made a dye to stain their bodies and heighten their copper hue.
Donna Dolores' concealment of her face is not to heighten or tempt the masculine curiosity, but alas!
I saw your mind, with a thousand natural charms; but the greatness of its beauty served only to heighten my pity for its prostitution.
Cyrus comes, the world redressing, Love and pleasure in his train; Comes to heighten every blessing, Comes to soften every pain.
To heighten our satisfaction, two blackbirds answered each other from the opposite hedges, the familiar redbreast came and pecked the crumbs from our hands, and every sound seemed but the echo of tranquillity.
The brush and comb have been but sparingly used; and neither perfume nor pomatum has been employed to heighten the shine of those luxuriant locks.
To heighten their redness, and keep them from burning to the bottom, put into the Pan four or five pieces of pure Tin, as big as Half-Crowns.
The merits of historical painting may be quite independent of the attributes that give pleasure, and a superficial ugliness may even heighten the effect; but not so of landscapes.
The sarcophagi that served them for coffins could not now be put to a more appropriate use than as wine-coolers in a modern dining-room; and it would heighten the enjoyment of a festival to look at them.
On beginning my explanations I tell my pupil that I leave my price to him, and during the lesson I perform an interlude which must heighten his generosity.
Does not the merchant, for instance, regard them as precious qualities to heighten the value of his wares?
It is the scene of the lovers' meeting at the festival, and to heighten its interest and provide something else than hymns and rites, Boito has turned Leander into a victor in the Aphrodisian games, both as swordsman and cytharist.
To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.
Virginia soon put them at their ease; she waited upon them with refreshments, the excellence of which she endeavoured to heighten by relating some particular circumstance which, in her own estimation, vastly improved them.
I procured for these occasions a few bottles of old wine, in order to heighten the relish of our Oriental repast by the more genial productions of Europe.
And perhaps there is no one part of Hamlet that does more to heighten the tragic effect than the droll scene of the Gravediggers.
When a Work is apparently great it will go without Crutches; all your Art and Anxiety to heighten the Fame of it then becomes low and little.
Everything that could heighten the mystery of initiation was added, until the very name of the ceremony possessed a strange charm, and yet conjured up the wildest fears.
