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The policy of the Romans was always more remarkable for tenacity, cunning, and consistency, than for grandeur of conception or power of rapid organization qualities in which the enemies of Rome from Pyrrhus down to Mithradates often surpassed her. Hannibal Thus the smiles of fortune inaugurated the brilliantly conceived project of Hamilcar.
Even the religious grandeur of Nikko's cryptomeria aisles was incomparable to this. One afternoon our column found itself hopelessly lost in a jungle growth so dense that one could penetrate it only by cutting a tunnel through, and for hours we hacked and hacked and made microscopic progress.
Here the finest green-heart grows, and wallaba, purple-heart, siloabali, sawari, buletre, tauronira, and mora, are met with in vast abundance, far and near, towering up in majestic grandeur, straight as pillars sixty or seventy feet high, without a knot, or branch.
It had for me a peculiar attraction on account of the gloomy grandeur of the scene at the entrance. When I saw it for the first time I understood at once the supernatural horror in which the peasant has learnt to hold such places.
For a few seconds the young Englishmen were silent, lost in admiration at the spaciousness, the grandeur, and the tropical luxuriance and beauty of the scene upon which their gaze rested entranced; then Dick broke the silence by murmuring: "Now, what river is this, I wonder? Surely it cannot be the Magdalena, of which we have heard so many wonderful stories?
Webster need not fear comparison with any of his countrymen, and he has no reason to shun it with the greatest masters of speech in England. He had much of the grandeur of Chatham, with whom it is impossible to compare him or indeed any one else, for the Great Commoner lives only in fragments of doubtful accuracy.
All that can be said against the French sublime, in this instance of it, is this: That the grandeur is MORE in the WORD, and LESS in the THING. No doubt, the ocean fills the mind with vast ideas; but Paris being so far inland, it was not likely I should run post a hundred miles out of it, to try the experiment; the Parisian barber meant nothing.
"We can't thank you enough," declared Phyllis, a little overcome by so much grandeur. Tom was standing in a far corner of the room. "I would like to suggest that I be allowed to come into this," he demanded firmly. "You, Tom?" teased Madge. "You're merely the audience." Tom took four small square boxes out of his pocket. "Don't you be too sure, Miss Madge Morton.
With the line they made everything straight; They bound the frame-boards tight, so that they should rise regularly uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur . Crowds brought the earth in baskets; They threw it with shouts into the frames; They beat it with responsive blows. They pared the walls repeatedly, till they sounded strong.
He is celebrated for his accurate drawing, and for the charm and grace of his female figures. He also gave great grandeur to his figures, like Michael Angelo. Contemporary with him was Dionysius, who was remarkable for expression, and Micon, who was skilled in painting horses.
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