One could have imagined her very fair, if not
divinely tall, leaving a scent of lemons and oranges in her wake.
And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more
divinely. Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action, till they have passed the meridian of their years; as it was with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus.
Putting my faith in old saws, as a young man will, I had never dreamed to know again a bliss so
divinely passionate and pure as came to me with every glance of Nicolete's sweet eyes, with every simple pressure of her hand; and the joy that was mine when sometimes, stopping on our way, we would press together our lips ever so gravely and tenderly, seems too holy even to speak of.
The dream--and diction--of a God, did the world then seem to me; coloured vapours before the eyes of a
divinely dissatisfied one.
"Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was
divinely beautiful.
"Then," remarked Agnes, "it is the third since the Sunday of the Loetare : for, in less than a week, we had the miracle of the mocker of pilgrims
divinely punished by Notre-Dame d'Aubervilliers, and that was the second miracle within a month."
Instead of the former
divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent.
She is perfectly charming; and Patti sang
divinely. Don't talk about horrid subjects.
"That is very true," she said; "he cannot sing now; it is already many years that he has lost his voice, but in other times he sang, yes,
divinely! So whenever he comes now, you shall see, yes, that the theater will not hold the people.
The heroine of a modern novel is always "
divinely tall," and she is ever "drawing herself up to her full height." At the "Barley Mow" she would bump her head against the ceiling each time she did this.
Thanks to his pastorals, I could long afterwards enjoy with the double sense requisite for full pleasure in them, such
divinely excellent artificialities at Tasso's "Aminta" and Guarini's "Pastor Fido"; things which you will thoroughly like only after you are in the joke of thinking how people once seriously liked them as high examples of poetry.
There she went in and put to the glittering doors, and there the Graces bathed her with heavenly oil such as blooms upon the bodies of the eternal gods -- oil
divinely sweet, which she had by her, filled with fragrance.