The path of St. Bernard, therefore, had all the charm of novelty, and their youthful and ardent minds were soon won from meditating on their own causes of unhappiness, to admiration of the sublimeworks of nature.
The Baron de Willading and his friends stood uncovered, in reverence of the sublime picture, which could only come from the hands of the Creator, and with unalloyed enjoyment of the bland tranquillity of the hour.
On the side of Savoy, the coast was a sublime wall of rocks, here and there clothed with chestnuts, or indented with ravines and dark glens, and naked and wild along the whole line of their giddy summits.
There was no longer any vegetation at all, or, if here and there a blade of grass had put forth under the shelter of some stone, it was so meagre, and of so rare occurrence, as to be unnoticed in that sublime scene of chaotic confusion.
That is a fine thing to have said, proceeding from so sublime an egoism, so transcendent a pride, that it has hardly a disfiguring touch of vanity about it.
There was something sublime in the tone of that one word--something superb in the girl's face, as her eyes met the haggard gaze of the murderer.
Would it not have been better for me if I had let Margaret Wilmot go her own way, and carry out her sublime scheme of self-sacrifice?
The captain of the Crow said this with an air of sublime resignation; and in the next minute the detective was scrambling up the side of the vessel, by the aid of a rope flung out by one of the sailors on board the Crow.
He had always lacked that sublime quality of patience, which endures the evil day, and calmly breasts the storm.
So impressed was Bess at the sublime grandeur and beauty of the scene that she was oblivious of her companion.
And yet soon would she leave this sublime beauty, and she could feast her heart only upon its memory.
The farthest star is but a beacon light on some shore island of this sublime sea of space; and it beckons upward and outward to the unknown beyond.
When the director of this maestoso March movement signals fortissimo the effect is sublime and the fine ear shall not fail to detect the overtones which come from the hop hornbeams and the hazel in the undergrowth below.
What I once said to you, as I witnessed the scene five and twenty years ago, all came back at this most affecting and sublime sight.
It is a most extraordinary performance--pathetic in the highest degree, and full of quite sublime acting.
It was at this sublime meeting-place of the Great Three that this untrained and simple lad soon arrived--searching for the truth.
Alive in his own sublime way he was, and inextricably rooted in one ever-living book alone--the Bible.
I see all things as a growth, a sublime unfolding by the Laws of God.
Following so quickly upon the sublime roar and ravage of the night before, the stillness was disturbing.
What these ideas did for one little girl, living in Lexington, Kentucky, was part of that same sad, sublime history.
Besides, tragical suffering is the sublime privilege of deep natures: she escaped by smallness.
His inventive fancy depicts the interior structure, both of the great Kosmos and of its little human miniature, in a way corresponding to these sublime purposes.
And she gazed at him with the sublime confidence of a chaste and true love--that divine and fugitive beam which God, in his ineffable goodness, only allows to shine in innocent and candid hearts.
Hidalgo and Morelos, those sublime champions of liberty, had lost their lives in their generous attempts at emancipation; but their blood had not in vain bedewed that Mexican soil which the Spaniards fancied enslaved forever.
It was a grand and sublime lesson which Providence gave the despots through the inflexible logic of history, and yet despots have ever refused to understand it.
Her face shone with a pure and holy joy; never had her features reflected such a sublime expression; she was lovely, with the beauty of Virgin and Martyr.
Alone with your horse, with no regrets for the past or care for the future, you feel that you live, and you unconsciously become a better man, because you are nearer to GOD whose sublime book ever lies open before you.
The Indian himself, struck with admiration at this sublime emotion, felt his iron heart melt, and he almost regretted being the cause of this fearful catastrophe.
The remote and esthetically sublime is to be scientifically described and explained in terms of homely familiar events and forces.
Modern science took its first step when daring astronomers abolished the distinction of high, sublime and ideal forces operating in the heavens from lower and material forces actuating terrestrial events.
Why, for the past ten years every diplomat at the Sublime Porte has been at work to get it through, but has been unsuccessful.
Angela asked, suddenly, and the pain in her voice startled her sister from the contemplation of the sublime Mandane.
Nay, sir, the world is richer for such a man as John Milton, who has composed the grandest poem in our language--an epic on a scale and subject as sublime as the Divine Comedy of Dante.
She thought of thatsublime heretic Ferrar, whose later existence was one long prayer.
He wanted to see one married woman for the last time; to throw a frightful look on her; to be sublime in scorn of her; perhaps to love her all the better for the cruel pain, in the expectation of being consoled.
One of them was the sublime Barto Rizzo--admirable--though I must hate him.
Never in history was so sublime a vanity revealed; and it is hard for a stranger to understand upon what it is based.
Thus he said, insublime ignorance of the past, in perfect misunderstanding of the future.
Neither the most ignoble nor the most powerful could lift their heads in the sublime desolation which was sweeping the country.
Early in the year, the most sublime sentence of death was promulgated which has ever been pronounced since the creation of the world.
He is the inventor of epic painting, in that sublime circle of the Sistine chapel which exhibits the origin, the progress, and the final dispensations of theocracy.
In the Miracle at the Temple-gate a more forcible and more sublime effect would have been obtained from a cupola-light and pillars darkened on the foreground.
Of the epic plan, the loftiest species of human conception, the aim is to astonish whilst it instructs; it is the sublime allegory of a maxim.
In the Lunetta of Haman, we owe the sublimeconception of his figure to the subsequent passage in the xviith c.
In honour I gained them," he said to objectors, adding with sublime illogicality, "in honour I will die with them.
This sublime example arouses me, calls my latent powers into activity, when but for him I might not have known them there.
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I call on Thee O Most Sublime One, O Beauteous One, O Bounteous One!
Every now and then we stopped to look back at the sublime scenery, and to make a hasty sketch of the peaks, which tempted us to pause.
This motive for universalism became all the stronger, as the faith became more centered in the sublime conception of God as Master of all the world.
This sublimetruth is constantly reiterated in the Talmud and in the liturgy, especially of the great Day of Atonement.
Even the lofty prophet Isaiah realizes his own human limitations at the sublime vision of the God of holiness enthroned on high, while the angelic choruses chant their thrice holy.
Amid hallucinations and mighty emotional outbursts this belief in Allah took root in the fiery soul of Mohammed, who thus received sublime conceptions of the one God and His creation, and of the world's Judge and His future Day of Judgment.
But one belief illumines the darkness of destiny, and that is that God stands ever at the helm, steering through every storm and tempest toward His sublime goal.
Much of it was devoted to parody of that sublime institution known as "evening dress"--popular on Third Avenue as the "dress suit.
He was well aware of the hostility his ordonnances would create; he was well aware that the army must be their veritable support: yet observe with what a sublime air of nonchalance he prepares himself for the subjection of a people.
