And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me -- the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis:
For though a man have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a singer, the servant of the Muses, chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all; but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these.
They that are
glorious, must needs be factious; for all bravery stands upon comparisons.
The serjeant had informed Mr Jones that they were marching against the rebels, and expected to be commanded by the
glorious Duke of Cumberland.
And then at length the
glorious mad descent down three plunging cataracts of rocky road, the exciting rattling of the harness, the grinding of the strong brakes, the driver's soothing calls to his horses, and the long burnished horn trailing wild music behind us, like invisible banners of aerial brass,--oh, it stirred the dullest blood amongst us thus as it were to tear down the sky towards the white roofs of Yellowsands, glittering here and there among the clouds of trees which filled the little valley almost to the sea's edge, while floating up to us came soft strains of music, silken and caressing, as though the sea itself sang us a welcome.
Immoral, licentious, anarchical, unscientific -- call them by what names you will -- yet, from an aesthetic point of view, those ancient days of the Colour Revolt were the
glorious childhood of Art in Flatland -- a childhood, alas, that never ripened into manhood, nor even reached the blossom of youth.
'Agnes, I want you to take a walk with me to--' (he named a certain part of the coast--a bold hill on the land side, and towards the sea a steep precipice, from the summit of which a
glorious view is to be had).
"Here are three for Stella, and two for Pris, and a
glorious fat one for me from Jo.
But either because the rains had given a freshness or because the sun was shedding a most
glorious heat, or because two of the gentlemen were young in years and the third young in spirit--for some reason or other a change came over them, and they forgot Italy and Botany and Fate.
He was a flaming example to the wooers of
glorious fortune.
Mr Chuckster, being a gentleman of a cultivated taste and refined spirit, was one of that Lodge of
Glorious Apollos whereof Mr Swiveller was Perpetual Grand.
Furiously we fought, but the advantage was mine, for I stood upon a raised platform above them, and I fought for the most
glorious woman of a
glorious race, and I fought for a great love and for the mother of my boy.