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The amaranth, for instance, which is the emblem of immortality, received its name, "never-fading," from the Greeks on account of the lasting nature of its blossoms. Accordingly, Milton crowns with amaranth the angelic multitude assembled before the Deity: "To the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold.
He deliberately inwove His life into all that is commonest in life. He has made it impossible for us, if indeed we have His spirit, to think of any salient aspect of human life without thinking of Him.
Observ. sur la Physique par M. Rozier, l. 33. p. 130. Addition to Orchis. The two following lines were by mistake omitted; they were to have been inserted after l. 282, p. 119. Saw on his helm, her virgin hands inwove, Bright stars of gold, and mystic knots of love; Addition to the note on Tropæolum.
It is therefore a matter of everlasting gratitude and thanksgiving that all the men most concerned in the founding of our commonwealth were so clear and well-balanced on the subject of religious liberty, and so thoroughly inwove the same into its organic constitution. Gustavus Adolphus and Axel Oxenstiern were the heroes of their time in the cause of religious liberty in continental Europe.
Leaving, moreover, every subject on which its nimble tongue had lighted, damaged by that contact at loose ends, frayed and ravelled, its inwove pattern just slightly discoloured and defaced. The patterned fabric of Damaris' thought and inner life had not been spared, but suffered disfigurement along with the rest. She felt humiliated, felt unworthy.
No rain came, as they had expected, and by the time they halted the western sky had cleared, so that the newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.
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