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She cleared the Strait, crossed the bay, continued on her way through the 'One-degree' passage. She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
In her face, however, especially when flushed, they had all the effect of what Milton describes as Quel sereno fulgor d'amabil nero. A wise observer would have been a little troubled in regarding her mouth. The sadness of a morbid sensibility hovered about it the sign of an imagination wrought upon from the centre of self.
French prisoners Oldenburg bonnets "Fugio ut Fulgor" Soldiers of the Empire Paris A French hotel A walk through Paris Portrait of Madame de Staël An English ambassador The Louvre French tragedy The heights of Montmartre Cossacks in the Champs Elysées £900 for substitute Napoleon's legacies to his successor A dinner at the English Embassy Botany and mineralogy Party at Madame de Staëls A debate in the Corps Législatif Malmaison Elbowing the marshals St Cloud and Trianon The Catacombs.
He lay there, counting the seconds, knowing that he and his slowly drifting surf-boat were still in the full white fulgor of the wavering searchlight. He lay there as a second shot came whistling overhead, spitting into the water within three feet of him. Then a third bullet came, this time tearing through the wood of the boat bottom beside him.
Swarthy of complexion, his hair dark as the night, his eyes large and lustrous, with what Milton calls "quel sereno fulgor d' amabil nero," his frame nervous and slender, he looked compact and small beside her. She did her utmost to quiet him, unconsciously using the same words and tones with which she had soothed his passions when he was a child.
His majesty wore a military frock trimmed with yellow, two worsted epaulettes on his shoulders, and an English hussar-cap on his head, with the motto FULGOR ET HONOS. A cloth around his loins completed his heterogeneous equipment. In the canoe was a small bullock, tied by the feet, together with several ducks, chickens, kids, and plantains.
Swarthy of complexion, his hair dark as the night, his eyes large and lustrous, with what Milton calls "quel sereno fulgor d' amabil nero," his frame nervous and slender, he looked compact and small beside her. She did her utmost to quiet him, unconsciously using the same words and tones with which she had soothed his passions when he was a child.
At 4 on Monday we stepped into the cabriolet or front part of our diligence, on the panels of which was written "Fugio ut Fulgor," and though appearances were certainly against anything like compliance with this notice, the result was much nearer than I could have conceived.
Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile from the rest of men!
and a thousand of the like, wherewith the world suffers itself to be so easily imposed upon, believing that our interests affect the heavens, and that their infinity is concerned at our ordinary actions: "Non tanta caelo societas nobiscum est, ut nostro fato mortalis sit ille quoque siderum fulgor." Pliny, Nat.
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