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The walk was gloomy, but in all gloom there is something that is grand and elevating something that gives a sense of expansion to the soul. The cries of the unseen night-birds, the solemn mystery of the enigmatic trees wrapped in darkness, make us feel the supernatural that surrounds us, and is a part of us, more than the visible movement of life in the light of the sun.
"Long Tommy" reached forward to open the breech, but was stopped by a sharp order from the divisional officer. "Don't open that breech till I give the word," he said. The electrical connections were examined and the contacts scraped bright. "Stand by," said "Hay" finally; "let's try her again." The great gun moved slowly on its pivot while "Hay" worked the elevating gear.
It is natural to think of the generally elevating and softening effects of great art as a kind of moral clarifying, and the question how this should be effected just by pity and fear was not pressed. So Lessing in the "Hamburgische Dramaturgie" takes Katharsis as the conversion of the emotions in general into virtuous dispositions.
A good man, too, may create in a repulsive manner objects whose every association is ennobling or elevating. "The kingdom of heaven is within you," but hell is also within.
But I mean that we shall find, as a matter of experience, if we know the best that has been thought and uttered in the world, we shall find that the art and poetry and eloquence of men who lived, perhaps, long ago, who had the most limited natural knowledge, who had the most erroneous conceptions about many important matters, we shall find that this art, and poetry, and eloquence, have in fact not only the power of refreshing and delighting us, they have also the power, such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life, they have a fortifying, and elevating, and quickening, and suggestive power, capable of wonderfully helping us to relate the results of modern science to our need for conduct, our need for beauty.
The will is, indeed, if I may so speak, the organ or the instrument of sacrifice and duty; and since piety properly consists in sacrifice and duty, in suppressing the inordinate appetites of the human heart, and elevating nature above herself, the will is the faculty in which piety should reside.
" said Constance, clasping her hands and elevating her eyes in mock ecstasy, "if you had ever seen Mr. Carleton I " "I dare say I have seen somebody as good," said Fleda quietly. "My dear Fleda!" said Constance, a little scornfully this time, "you haven't the least idea what you are talking about!
"Morton," said he, looking down at his left leg, "Morton, let me see; thou art now of a reasonable age, fourteen at the least." "Fifteen, if it please you, sir," said I, elevating my stature as much as I was able. "Humph! my boy; and a pretty time of life it is, too. Your brother Gerald is taller than you by two inches."
With one exception, and that doubtful for a man may be weak and may not be brave without being a bad man or even king every bearer of this fated name laboured with courage and constancy at the great work of elevating his country. "Another for Hector!" cried the Highland warrior when his young chief was in danger, and all the world has read the story with moistened eyes.
He produced a vast number of pictures, elevating to men of every race and of every age, and before whose immortal beauty artists of every school unite in common homage. Wilhelm Lubke The term "Preraphaelite" traces a royal lineage to William Morris.
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