He smiling saw the mighty work was good, While all the lesser Gods around him gazing stood.
Where all their sacred awful Majesty, Their boasted and their fond Divinity; Loose their vast force; as lesser Lights are hid, When the fierce God of Day his Beauties spread.
If Rome that kept the lesser World in awe, Wanted a Juvenal to give them Law, How much more we who stockt with Knave and Fool, Have turn'd the Nation into Ridicule.
The first arch to the east of the lesser transept on the north side is occupied by the =Easter Sepulchre=, probably erected by someone who intended the western portion for his own tomb.
The lesser transept has four apsidal chapels towards the east, and the great transept has a single eastern aisle divided into six chapels.
The modern coloured glass which fills the former, as well as many lesser windows in the minster, brings out in greater contrast the loveliness of even the wrecks of the early stained glass still remaining in some others.
The next bay eastward, which crosses the lesser transept, is filled on both sides by screens of wrought ironwork, having that scrolled pattern so often found in early examples.
She had chosen him--the lesser before the greater; and she should not find him wanting.
She forgot alllesser things in the ardour of the chase.
Livingston, and Ambrose Spencer, surely lesser gods of our early political Olympus could not be expected to refuse its advantages or murmur at its hardships.
In this maxim of lesser things Van Buren was carefully practiced.
In the art of making of the lesser offices ammunition with which to fight great battles over great questions, Van Buren became a master.
The independent treasury scheme was plainly far different from the removal of the deposits from one great bank to many lesser ones.
A few days before some banks in lesser cities of the Southwest had stopped.
At this time the system of removing the lesser as well as the greater officers of government for political reasons was well established in New York.
The people and the greater politicians were therefore swayed by personal preferences, without strong reason for either choice; and the lesser politicians were simply watching to see how the tide ran.
This was true, though to a lesser degree, with the Spanish war loan.
Then the Metiers, or lesser craftsmen, assemble--no doubt more noisily and boisterously, as would be expected from their rougher class and lower breeding.
He then blew so loud a recall upon his horn that it was heard for miles through the great forest, and presently the lesser counts and knights who formed his train came riding up.
For this reason the tourist who is a philosopher will not regard too seriously the dicta of the learned as to which of these lesser paintings is or is not of the first rank in the order of merit.
The "White Hoods," as the warriors of the popular party were called, destroyed the castles of several of the lessernobility who dared to resist their authority and throughout all the land Van Artevelde reigned supreme.
But now we must get on, and first we come to the Lesser Bird of Paradise.
The Lesser Bird of Paradise is something like the Great Bird of Paradise, only it is not quite so handsome and not nearly so big--which, of course, is what you would expect from its name.
Round them lesser towers and gables, scholastic in their gray stone, rose above the trees of the campus.
But it is not only the lesser inhabitants of the water that the Angler ensnares!
He excelled in appeals to the heart and conscience of the nation, a gift Mr. Harding has not; the lesser arts of the politician, tact and skill in the handling and selecting of men, were lacking.
Lesser Armenia and was taken by the Seljuks in 1147.
It seems probable that it is the lesser or French Brittany from which the stories were derived, though something may be due to Welsh and Cornish sources.
Now pain is the transition to a lesser perfection (Def.
We may, under the guidance of reason, pursue the lesser evil as though it were the greater good, and we may shun the lesser good, which would be the cause of the greater evil.
We may, under the guidance of reason, seek a lesser evil in the present, because it is the cause of a greater good in the future, and we may shun a lesser good in the present, because it is the cause of a greater evil in the future.
We may, under the guidance of reason, seek a greater good in the future in preference to a lesser good in the present, and we may seek a lesser evil in the present in preference to a greater evil in the future.
Under the guidance of reason we should pursue the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils.
For the evil, which is here called the lesser, is really good, and the lesser good is really evil, wherefore we may seek the former and shun the latter.
I count the renowned chief Tecumseh, too, that later and lesser Pontiac, who attempted to do against the Americans what Pontiac tried to do against the English.
Their mole-like race threw up their ridges and banks and larger and lesser heaps, and then ceased from the face of the earth, as utterly as if they had burrowed into its heart.
Laura began to perceive, that a termagant is not so untameable an animal as she had once imagined, since one glimpse of the master-spirit is of sovereign power to lay the lesser imps of spleen.
On a death-bed, guilt appears the only real misery; and lesser evils are lost amidst its horror like shadows in a midnight-gloom.
Ill calculated by nature to struggle with difficulties, he had long been accustomed to let the lesser disasters glide by without notice, and to sink, without effort, under the greater.
Few of the lesser sorrows of youth can resist the cheering influence of early morn; and the petty miseries which, in the shades of evening, assume portentous size and colour, diminish wonderfully in the light of the new-risen sun.
No person could have been better fitted than Laura to conciliate such a temper; for on all the lesser occasions of submissions she was as gentle and complying as she was inflexible upon points of real importance.
He trusted, that while the master-spirit detained Hargrave within the circle of Walbourne, he might dexterously practise with the lesser imp of evil.
Between going it alone and accompanying him, it seemed to be a case of choosing thelesser evil.
With the list in her purse, she went down on Hastings--which runs like a huge artery through the heart of the city, with lesser streets crossing and diverging.
He thought still of Sylvia, and thought of her with passion which would be satisfied at any cost; but he thought of lesser things as well.
The Emperor rowed Miss de Courcy to the Isle of Cupid, to see Thorwaldsen's statue, and lesser mortals joined them there.
But the lesser shadow moved, halted, and the greater shadow was stationary and grew denser as the moon sailed again across a clear patch of sky.
He saw how numerous the cities built along the lesser Syrtis were, and noticed the excellence of the district which they call Emporia, and he had long been casting an envious eye upon the revenues which those places produced.
Contrast with "We are Seven"; why is there so marked a simplicity in the lesser poem?
He leaves environment to lesser poets and concentrates all his energies upon man himself, his passions and emotions.
She took a great interest in the cause of Italian independence, as appears from "Casa Guidi Windows," and many lesser poems.
Jays often come, magpies more rarely, to the copse; as for the lesser birds they all visit it.
They are bounded by a copse of ash stoles and young oak trees, and the lesser of the meads is full of rush bunches and dotted with green ant-hills.
With flowers it is the same; the lesser celandine, the marsh marigold, the silvery cardamine, appear first in one particular spot, and may be gathered there before a petal has opened elsewhere.
It was the lesser broom rape, and hardly a clover plant escaped this parasitic growth.
Willowherbs, however, fill every place in the ditch here where they can find room between the bushes, and the arum is equally common, but the lesser celandine absent.
The daws are easily known by their lessersize and by their flight, for they use their wings three times to the rook's once.
And immediately all the initiates into the lesser rank of the mysteries prostrated themselves on the floor, and then, arising, softly and in silence made their way to the exit.
And the two lesser peaks were forming into definite contours.
The moon was coming up late, and he watched the ruddy glow of it as it rode up over the wilderness, a splendid queen entering upon a stage already prepared by the lesser satellites for her coming.
