No power, poets aver, is stronger to awaken a religious mood than is the quietude of the beauty which they worship.
At least it is pleasant to find verse, by minor writers though it be, describing the quietude and naturalness of the poet's best moments.
The men set to work immediately on their arrival, and the quietude that had reigned beneath the shadow of Fort Howe hill was broken by the sound of the woodsman's axe and the carpenter's saw and hammer.
In the month of October, 1696, the quietude of the household at the Jemseg was disturbed by the appearance of the Massachusetts military expedition under Hawthorne and Church.
Although the Indians had committed no hostilities for two years, he believed no dependence could be placed on their quietude so long as the French were allowed to exercise their disturbing influence among them.
It prostrates and destroys the turbulent elements of our nature, and its quietude is the residue left by their exhaustion: it crumbles beneath us the heights of passion, and deposits us upon a placid level beneath the infinite expanse.
If one who is a God resists indignity with quietude and calmness, on what ground can another make such conduct an example?
All the ingenuities of logic and of language, leave it a mystery still: and it is better to stand within the darkness in the quietude of faith, than vainly to search for its margin in the restlessness of knowledge.
When an attractive girl who generally shows remarkable powers of quietude and self-control breaks down, and proves herself a very woman after all, the average man is generally touched, and more than a little moved.
He had not far to go, and was within hail of the cottage; but it was late, and yet he believed he should find them up, for the quietude and calmness of the evening hour was that which most chimed with their feelings.
But strange, and more strange than any contrast in nature, was that afforded to the calm beauty of the night and place by the deep stillness and quietude imposed upon the mind by that motionless human body.
They were ready for winter; and John should have been enjoying the sleepy quietude that follows hard physical labor; but never before had his parents seen him so restless and disquieted.
Garvin had feared the Thing in himself that stirred so frequently now, and that dropped back into quietude only when he drugged it.
In the same measure the Dutch had not the feeling for quietude and habitable, humble, and familiar places.
His very quietude is expressive of majesty; his peace is imposing, his smile grave; and his caress is not without a menace.
The best of his drawings may stand beside the sketches of Duerer without detriment; to place his pictures on the same level is impossible, because quietude and pure harmony are wanting in them.
In later years it was precisely through these two qualities, his grandiose quietude and his "anaemic" painting, that he brought the world beneath his spell, and diverted French art into a new course.
There is in them at times something of the mysticalquietude of the East, and at times something of the passionate breath of Eugene Delacroix.
Where there is a classic quietude and an oily heaviness in Millet, there is in Pissarro palpitating life, transparence, and freshness.
It was the twilight--a twilight of such quietude that one could hear the soft voice of the world as it whispered through leaf and twig.
Intensely pacified by this knowledge, he lumbered toward the bunkhouse door and flung it open, determined to crush the pestersome youth who thus unfeelingly disturbed the quietude of Camp Bannister at such an unearthly hour!
Popular and beloved as he was, the gladsome youth hesitated to shatter the quietude of the campus with his saengerfest, knowing as he did what a terrible blow Thor's utterly astounding announcement had been to the college.
So she remained there until Teola cried herself into a quietude that left an expression of wonder, knowledge and sorrow.
So dense was the quietude of the painful meeting that Frederick Graves could plainly hear the thumping of his own heart.
Upon the plain face of Myra rested a peaceful expression, as if she possessed a quietude she had never known before.
But as the best of human arrangements often fail through unforeseen circumstances, so the quietude was broken a second time that morning unexpectedly.
Ere long oblivion brooded over the late hilarious crew, who lay down like bundles of hair in their festal garments, and the northern lights threw a flickering radiance over a scene of profound quietude and peace.
Every touch in her is true, from her first bewildering outbursts of hating people because she likes them, down to the sudden quietude and good sense which announces that she has slipped into her natural place as a woman.
The peace and utter quietude lay as balm upon the weary man.
The next moment, and with a sob of relief, she saw a moonbeam steal upon the hollow and reveal its quietude of dusk.
No other sound than her convulsive sobs, than his spasmodic breathing, met in the quietude of whisper-music exhaled as an odour by the sea and by the low wind among the corries and upon the grasses of the isle.
In the quietude of the gloaming, it was as though the sea called all round Innisròn as a beast of prey stalks about a high sheepfold, growling, breathing heavily, ravening.
A steady portrait especially invites one to do so: the quietude of it ironically tempts one to outrage it: one feels it would close again over the panel, like water, as if nothing had happened.
When I get back to Boulge I shall recover my quietude which is now all in a ripple.
Nature looks more stedfast in them than in other painters: all is wrought up into a quietude and harmony that seem eternal.
They lifted the cover of the basket, and there in quietude the barn-cat was sleeping his long last sleep.
The quietude of these precious Sabbath moments made the week, with its arduous tasks, bearable to the sensitive girl.
Strong words--and yet the man speaks with intense conviction: and his very quietude only serves to emphasise the awful nature of his disclosures.
Let me bind back into quietudethese wildly leaping impulses, and clip the wings of these girlish fancies.
With iron energy she summoned all her strength and quietude and wisdom.
To me she was still beautiful, in the gentle quietude of life's evening shades, the dignity of chastened passions, waiting hopes, and sustaining religious faith.
The method of producing this quietude is what we have now to consider.
