Sometimes, when in the mood for society, we would invite the remaining babies to tea and entertain them with wild strawberries on plates of horse-chestnut leaves; but no one less innocent and easily pleased than a baby would be permitted to darken the
effulgence of our sunny cottage-- indeed, I don't suppose that anybody wiser would care to come.
Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and
effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.
"O Tabitha!" cried he, with tremulous rapture, "how shall I endure the
effulgence? The gold!--the bright, bright gold!
The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circle, sent him their tribute in the shape of furs; hot Africa sifted for him the golden sands of her rivers, and gathered up the ivory tusks of her great elephants out of the forests; the east came bringing him the rich shawls, and spices, and teas, and the
effulgence of diamonds, and the gleaming purity of large pearls.
Its steeples and towers and its one great dome grow more ethereal; its smoky house-tops lose their grossness in the pale
effulgence; the noises that arise from the streets are fewer and are softened, and the footsteps on the pavements pass more tranquilly away.
When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its
effulgence --
To be 'responsible' for others has to mean, on one level, to let others be, to refrain from bothering them with my greed and aggression and equally from flooding them with my moral
effulgence.
Rejecting the containment and singularity of the "centre figure," the radiant
effulgence of the divinity of the common man and the common woman is underscored.
In the space of a paragraph, you journey thirteen thousand feet below the cerulean surface: past the sapphire
effulgence where the free diver has stopped and turned her face toward the stars, past the twilight where tropical fish blanch like mushrooms, past the midnight blue of the deep, cobalt caverns sonar telegraphs into spare music.
Rizal and Benjamin Franklin is to widen the reach of this essay-dissertation and this is as it ought to be for the lives and vigor of such personages of destiny - of persons of such rank and importance - converge or rendezvous in a confluence in that junction of vision and quest that in the lyrical, (rhapsodic) words of Albert Camus (1913-1960) "transcend national barriers with an
effulgence that reaches even the stars." The lives of these luminaries give us, in the words of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), "a gleam of time between two eternities."
Looking back I can see that there was a rich seam amongst the 'e's with effrontery, effete, epicene,
effulgence and (quite nearby) grummet all featuring in one section.
sensual
effulgence and familial and social fascination of the world of
Such a work, to the one who knows "how corrugated, discrete, and paradoxical landscapes in the cosmos can be", is a pure dialectical enjoyment in itself, in the solitary niche where true epistemic minds often hide their solitary
effulgence and brilliance.
(15) As Kevin Hart explains, for Blanchot the Sacred is "the
effulgence not of a transcendent point to which all things aspire but rather of an illusory point below the earth, as it were, which comes into being as one writes and attracts as it withdraws.
