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The fanatical boldness with which men had learned to discuss and decide upon the affairs of eternity might change its subject matter; the contempt for life and property which religious enthusiasm had taught could metamorphose timid citizens into foolhardy rebels.
The spacious area around the village cross, or the adjacent common, has been changed into the scene of the fair or the daily market; and the vicinity of the sea, or the navigable river, no longer needed as a protection against the attacks of surrounding enemies, has been taken advantage of to let in the wealth of many distant climes, and to metamorphose the straggling assemblage of mud cottages into a thronged and widespread city the proud abode of industry, wealth, elegance, and letters.
Farnese, on his part, within that well-guarded territory, had, for months long, scarcely slackened in his preparations, day or night. Whole forests had been felled in the land of Waas to furnish him with transports and gun-boats, and with such rapidity, that according to his enthusiastic historiographer each tree seemed by magic to metamorphose itself into a vessel at the word of command.
I cast my eyes to the earth, and both the ladies passed by me." On this last point I thought myself able to console the prince. "Strange," continued he, after a long silence, "that there should be something which one has never known never missed; and that yet on a sudden one should seem to live and breathe for that alone. Can one single moment so completely metamorphose a human being?
You are quite right. And now I will be off to metamorphose myself. When we next meet, there will be no long, shaggy beard, no artificial composure; I shall be natural, as a gentleman should. I may go as far as a fashionable coat, by way of publishing my renunciation of nonsense.
Astral beings dematerialize or materialize their forms at will. Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphose themselves, for a time, into astral men. All astral beings are free to assume any form, and can easily commune together.
Napoleon had incorporated these vigorous beings in the sixth of the line, hoping to metamorphose them finally into generals, barring those whom the bullets might take off. But the emperor's calculation was scarcely fulfilled, except in the matter of the bullets.
Smith himself does not dissent from this plan to metamorphose him into a Turk and the husband of the beautiful Charatza Tragabigzanda. He had no doubt that he was commended to the kindest treatment by her brother; but Tymor "diverted all this to the worst of cruelty."
Six years of marriage to Victor that alone should have been enough, one would think, to metamorphose the fairest face into a blasted battlefield of passions. She had a little shiver of voluptuous horror, remembering what she had endured and escaped.
"Mais seulement il se transpose Et passant de la forme au son, Trouve dans la métamorphose La jeune fille et le garçon." Transpose, a word never before used except in musical application, and now for the first time applied to material form, and with a beauty-giving touch that Phidias might be proud of.
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