Beethoven, the story proceeds, though he had heard not a word but had observed the soul of her singing in her transfigured face, had recognized his Leonore in her.
We know that a grand sacred composition has been associated with that first one in which you have immortalized the emotions of a soul, penetrated and transfiguredby the power of faith and superterrestrial light.
Betty, her whole being transfigured by the emotions of the morning, stirred the stewed rhubarb on her plate.
The charm was mainly, of course, in the spell of youthful fancy and expectancy, which touched and transfigured the homely scene, as the moonlight touched and transfigured the silent river.
He stood before her erect and tall, his face almost transfigured by an inner light, his eyes glowing with excitement.
He in fact would have known her only by her lily-like grace, the delicate outlines of her neck, her drooping shoulders, and her oval face, transfigured like that of a youthful virgin mounting towards heaven.
In an argument where conviction seems to be transmuted into penitence, and where confession seems transfigured into confidence, how can the logic be resolved; and where at last can the authority repose?
He smiled,--a musing, dreamy smile that transfigured his countenance and made him look like a fine Apollo absorbed in the thought of some new and glorious song.
The features I had known so long and seen day by day in familiar intercourse were the same,--the same, yet transfigured with ethereal splendour, while shadowed by an everlasting sorrow!
In his love he had transfigured the friend, and the composer of "Parsifal" and the man of his imagination were not one.
I used to think of that phrase in Matthew: "And was transfigured before them, And his face did shine as the sun.
And as he went on and on with increasing fervour and power a marvellous change transfigured that heavy face, it shone with a white light and spiritual feeling, as if he fully realized his communion with God Himself.
My whole mind was taken up and transfigured by this collective act, and I saw for a moment the Catholic Church quite plain, and I remembered Europe, and the centuries.
And now lastly, and only a word, note the great reward and crown of this transfigured life.
There is no promise here, nor is there anything in the tendencies of Christ-like living, to lead us to anticipate that guidance in regard to matters of prudence or expediency or temporal advantage will follow from such a transfigured life.
Our faith and sight Thy presence maketh one As through transfiguredclouds of white We trace the noon-day sun.
Transfigured and breathless in the moonlight, John Milton gazed on it.
The sunlight, nearly level, streamed through the western window across the front of the platform where she stood andtransfigured her slight but noble figure.
These shapes were like those of men and maidens, transfigured and rendered strange and delicate, as light as foam, and radiant as dragonflies hovering over a pool.
But suddenly it flashed across her that the music resembled Albrecht's song; it was Albrecht's song, only transfigured as it were, and a thousand times more beautiful in her dream than in reality.
Ecstasy never transfigured that face, which is neither noble nor great.
A word in itself, especially a word chosen and transfigured by poetry, is the most energetic and universal symbol.
She lay day and night in a tranquil state, smiling with inexpressible sweetness when she was spoken to, rarely speaking of her own accord, doing with gentle docility all she was told to do, but looking more and more like a transfigured saint.
There is a romance even in the first full consciousness of this rather commonplace fact; but for me this consciousness is transfigured inexpressibly by the divine beauty of the day.
And as they spoke both became transfigured and ascended to heaven and vanished from the sight of Tokudo Shonin.
His is a realismtransfigured by poetic imagination, which divines essential things and places them in high relief.
The return from the Isle of Elba transfigured his handsome and noble countenance; at Waterloo his heart rushed in with the last army of the Empire, and there shattered itself.
