The "botanist" finds beauty everywhere, even among the homeliest of Flora's hosts.
If half his face was sufficient to raise the declaration from Taterleg that the man was uglier than he, all of it surely proclaimed him the homeliest man in the nation.
John's advice to the various classes of hearers illustrates the truth that the commonest field of duty and the homeliest acts may become sacred.
He is essentially and above all a poet, and to whoever can follow him he opens a celestial world in which the homeliest earthly fact is irradiated by indwelling divinity.
But, under the homeliest figure, under the guise of the nearest human relation, it expressed the greatest truth of the inner life.
The men have just enough mysticism to afford them homeliest figures for deepest feelings.
Coming now to speak of his art, let me say something first about his use of homeliest imagery for highest thought.
It ain't so with Euthymy: she'd look like a great lady dressed anyhow, and she has n't got any more notions than the homeliest girl that ever stood before a glass to look at herself.
The homeliest imagination can form some idea of circumstances which in themselves are common enough.
She used every day, and in her homeliest moments, things which even princes reserve for their best.
My friends," says the Judge, "I will now read the vote for the homeliest man.
I might answer, because of my interest in the scene it depicts--a scene in which religion seems to shed its sanctifying influence over the tenderest affection and the homeliest duties of our common life; but I had another reason.
Highly educated, with an intense enjoyment of every form of beauty and grace, she saw something of them embellishing the homeliest employments and most common life with which a sentiment of duty was connected.
I fear, however, that it is not the poetical quality of his undramatic verse which can ever be said to make it worth reading: it is, as far as I know, of the very homeliest homespun ever turned out by the very humblest of workmen.
There is a characteristic manliness about Heywood's patriotism which gives a certain adventitious interest to his thinnest or homeliest work on any subject admitting or requiring the display of such a quality.
If you passed through the corridor and saw in the shadow of the wall that homeliest of instruments cast away and forgotten, you would smile at the slatternly housework.
The door always opens directly into the kitchen, without any vestibule; and, glimpsing in, you see that a cottager's life must be the very plainest and homeliest that ever was lived by men and women.
Among these there are a few thatched cottages, the homeliest domiciles that ever mortals lived in, belonging to the old estate.
The colonel goes on to relate how “the homeliest man” was not “beaten,” but that is another story.
The homeliest man I ever saw,’ was the thought I had.
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