By and by a delicate, spiritual sort of effulgence spread itself by imperceptible degrees over the loftiest altitudes of the snowy wastes--but there the effort seemed to stop.
You struck the loftiest altitude of stupidity that human effort has ever reached.
Rembrandt's Jacob's Dream, again, is both fearful to the eye, but realising that loftiest vision of the soul.
No one who has not devoted his life and soul to the pursuit of art can feel the same exultation in its brightest ornaments and loftiest triumphs which an artist does.
In spite of Church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart.
As we look back upon the past from the vantage ground of modern insight we see that men of the loftiest powers could be blind to intimations now plain and clear.
One of the loftiest chambers had been her sleeping-room.
The evening was approaching; the setting sun just gilded the loftiest heights.
As I was prying about one of the loftiest towers of the palace,” said he, “I beheld through a casement a beautiful princess.
This consists of metamorphic gneiss, in various highly inclined beds, through which granite hills protrude, the loftiest of which is Paras-nath.
The view to the southward from Mon Lepcha, including the country between the sea-like plains of India and the loftiest mountain on the globe, is very grand, and neither wanting in variety nor in beauty.
The magnificent Apocyneous climber, Beaumontia, was in full bloom, ascending the loftiest trees, and clothing their trunks with its splendid foliage and festoons of enormous funnel-shaped white flowers.
I especially noticed Aristolochia saccata, which climbs theloftiest trees, bearing its curious pitcher-shaped flowers near the ground only; its leaves are said to be good food for cattle.
A being of loftiest make is reduced to the likeness of a vile and venomous thing, crawling on its belly through the dust.
The loftiest mountains were shaken, and many cleft or shattered.
But would it be weakened, if the loftiest meditation issued in deeds instead of thoughts?
In those days there was no hesitation to assign to science the loftiest vocation and to declare .
This view of the world, which cannot grasp the wisdom of Jesus Christ, and which takes offence at the Cross, also takes offence at a science that confesses as the loftiest ideal Jesum Christum, et hunc crucifixum.
The officers ascended several of the loftiest hills in the course of the day, prompted by a natural anxiety to examine the spot which was to be their residence for many months.
Upon this they ascended the loftiest hill in the neighbourhood to examine whether they could discover any large lakes or water communication in the direction where the guide described the river to be.
We were, however, more fortunate in our next attempt, and succeeded in gaining the summit of one of the loftiest hills on the range, on the very top of which we found large boulders of rocks, imbedded in the soil.
It was a bold, round hill, without any particular feature, but evidently the loftiest connected with the Barrier Range.
The author has carefully photographed everything from the smallest object of interest to the loftiest peaks, and grandest mountain ranges.
Through a break to the south the sound stretches some miles further, backed by the Baranoff range, rising in innumerable sharply pointed pinnacles, and about their shoulders as purely white as loftiest Alpine heights.
Snow appears in seams and gorges on the loftiest heights.
The beautiful steeple of St. Paul's cathedral, the loftiest in the kingdom, had been stricken by lightning and utterly destroyed, together with the bells and roof.
She did not pretend to deny that she had loved Quentin Charter--her first and loftiest dream of a mate, the heart's cry of all her womanhood.
After some discussion of various theories, he proceeds to show by the help of the little drawing, 'that the onely Vicissitudes of heat and cold in ye aire is sufficient to raise the sap to the height of the loftiest trees.
The author's versification is now perfected, the exuberances of his imagination restrained, and a calm power, the surest and loftiest of all power, takes place of the impatient workings of the younger god within him.
Without the attributes of rank or wealth, he has risen from the humblest to the loftiest position.
I have myself known college and professional students who have lived on sixty cents a week (how, it is difficult to tell), while their minds were busy with the loftiest problems that have ever engaged the human intellect.
But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain and penetrates to the deepest valley.
Pitt thundered in his loftiest tones against the man who had wished to dip the ermine of a British King in the blood of the British people.
Farrar says, "from Coleridge to Tennyson, the greatest of our poets have drawn from its pages theirloftiest wisdom.
Figure and ornament, therefore, are not interchangeable terms; the loftiest figurative style most conforms to the precepts of gravity and chastity.
Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry of the lowliest kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression.
But the purest of sentiments and the loftiest of purposes do not constitute poetry, even when apparelled in verse.
While crossing the plateau we enjoyed an admirable view of the loftiest of the mountains which form, around the Park, a rampart of protection.
The only sound upon earth's loftiest mountains is the thunder of the avalanche.
Forever anchored there, those three resplendent peaks rise fourteen thousand feet above the sea, and form the grand tiara of our continent, the loftiest summits of the Rocky Mountains.
Whatever else may be said of the author of this account, it is certain that he was moved by a Holy Spirit, that he had the loftiest and worthiest views of God, and that he loved Him with all his heart and soul.
They are the natural response of the generous heart of humanity, to its wisest Teacher, its loftiest Example, and its greatest Benefactor.
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