He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.
And all these poor abandoned pages now seemed sweet, and past unhappiness was transmutedinto happiness, and the nights of toil were holy.
The fancy that sensations are symbols and not realities hovered in his mind, and led him to speculate as to whether they could not actually be transmuted one into another.
His soul becomes transmuted into flame; and when the lamp of his body is shattered, his flame mounts and soars, and is united to the Divine Fire.
Their last relics had not been yet transmuted by Mr. Cox into squares and a paragon?
He transmuted his words into batteries, and his thoughts into soldiers.
His idea was incorporated in other machines before he had obtained his patent, though it was only his own that transmuted cotton into gold.
When in this state, they found no difficulty in palming it off upon the uninitiated as an inferior metal, and very easily transmuted it into fine sonorous gold again with the aid of a little aquafortis.
In his presence the Scotsman transmuted a great quantity of base metal into pure gold, and gave it him as a mark of his esteem.
It was also pretended that Gustavus Adolphus transmuted a quantity of quicksilver into pure gold.
They pretended that they really transmuted the precious half from iron, by dipping it in a strong alcohol.
The object of the philosopher's stone was to dissolve or neutralise all these ingredients, by which iron, lead, copper, and all metals would be transmuted into the original gold.
For this reason, he thought the punishment of the guilty count might be transmuted into beheading, which was considered all over Europe as much less infamous.
Buds of a particular tree growing near the sea were described as producing barnacles, and these falling into the water were alleged to be transmuted into geese.
One was, that the sands of the river sparkled like gold; the other, that little Marygold's hair had now a golden tinge, which he had never observed in it before she had been transmuted by the effect of his kiss.
Looking more closely, what was his astonishment and delight, when he found that this linen fabric had been transmuted to what seemed a woven texture of the purest and brightest gold!
It had come into his mind as he lay looking upward into the depths of a tree, and observing how the touch of Autumn had transmuted every one of its green leaves into what resembled the purest gold.
The stranger's countenance still wore a smile, which seemed to shed a yellow lustre all about the room, and gleamed on little Marygold's image, and on the other objects that had been transmuted by the touch of Midas.
In her daughter this enigma had been transmuted into an intensely personal thing, a seductive mystery that made men love her at the same time that it overshadowed love and filled them with anxiety for their spiritual safety.
I forgot that masters of illusion have no use for facts, not even for such facts as grief or death, until they have been transmuted into some strange emotional freaks which will inspire the spectator with awe.
Behold it, transmuted into something you would never recognize, as is the way of stories when a novelist of romantic tendencies gets at them!
The ordinary consciousness of man will then have been transmuted into the subconsciousness, of which it had always been a pale reflection.
Some believe it to have been a physical body so purified and transmuted as to be like, or the same as, a spiritual body, and thus capable of invisibility and of entrance into the Realm of Spirit.
For he gave to me not so much as half a grane of that Powder, and with that were transmuted nine ounces, and three quarters of an ounce of Argetitvive.
How the intire Substance of Lead, was in one Moment Transmuted in Gold-Obrizon, with an exceeding small particle of the true Philosophick Stone.
If you have another convenient Chamber, I will Shew you Metal transmuted into Gold, by such a Stone as this (When I had brought him into another Chamber.
For if you had wrapped your Theft in yellow Wax, that it might have been conserved from the Fume of Lead, then it would so have penetrated into the Lead, as to have transmuted the same into Gold.
A second time, when I would make Experiment of my Stollen Matter hid under my Nayl, but to no purpose, because the Lead was not transmuted into Gold.
Gold, transmutedtwo scruples of the Silver (through the abundance of its Tincture) into like Gold Homogeneal to it self.
Spirit of Salt, not prepared in the Vulgar manner, transmuted Lead so, as from one pound, he received three parts of the best Silver, and two ounces of most fixed Gold.
It is consoling if we can wrap ourselves in the belief that good work can be extracted from bad brains, and that shallowness, affectation, and levity can, by some strange chemistry, be transmuted into a substitute for genius.
His sorrows have long passed into oblivion, unless so far as the sentiment wastransmuted into his writings.
After Aaron had made the calf of gold, Moses performed the much more difficult task of grinding it to powder and "strewing it upon the waters," thus showing that he had transmuted it into some lighter substance.
They were transmuted in the alchemist's crucible before the eyes of the visitors, the juggler adroitly extracting the iron nail and inserting a gold one without detection.
He thought of her in poems of names, as woman transmuted into flower- terms of beauty and philosophic abstractions of achievement and easement.
The stranger’s countenance still wore a smile, which seemed to shed a yellow lustre all about the room, and gleamed on little Marygold’s image, and on the other objects that had been transmuted by the touch of Midas.
As Granthope watched her he felt the quality of his excitement change, transmuted to a higher psychic level.
He watched her, as her expression was transmutedfrom bewilderment to the beginning of an agonized disillusion.
Indeed, the erudition is sometimes displayed a little too much, and we should like to see the lead of learning transmuted more often into the gold of thought.
The psychological analysis of such work as that of Mr. George Meredith, for instance, would probably lose by being transmuted into the passionate action of the stage, nor does M.
The meat of them has been transmuted in the alembic of Martin Eden's mind and poured into 'The Shame of the Sun,' and one day Martin Eden will be famous, and not the least of his fame will rest upon that work.
In the alchemy of his brain, trigonometry and mathematics and the whole field of knowledge which they betokened were transmuted into so much landscape.
Facts transmuted in the alembic of hope into terms of faith.
I'd trade anything and everything for anything else, and turn it over in a dozen more trades until it was transmuted into something that was worth something.
In a different vein was the burlesque incantation, a masterpiece of musical humour, in which the very essence of Mr. Gilbert's strange topsy-turvydom seems transmutedinto sound.
Der Freischütz' is German to the core, and every page of it bears the impress of German inspiration, but the glamour of Weber's genius transmuted the rough material he employed into a fabric of the richest art.
In one sense he was indeed an alchemist, and possessed the secret of the universal medicine; for in his poem his genius has transmuted into purest gold the base ore of popular traditions and legends.
At the end of a quarter of an hour he found the lead transmuted (so he avers) into gold.
He was above all himself, Der Einzige, as he proclaimed others, a most portentous and vigorous force in literature, that has been transmuted into different modes of intellectual motion.
It may be said, that with the general conversion into horny texture, the arteries of the Mussels were transmuted into internal tracheæ, and the branchial flabellæ into external organs.
The water-clays are hydrates; the air-clays volatilized hydrates; the fire-clays are clay fused ortransmuted by heat.
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