half-conjured

Updated: May 27, 2025

And Laura, as she becomes a more distant ideal, becomes nobler, though noble with only a faint earthly graciousness not comparable to the glory of the living Beatrice. Perhaps he may be called on to account for having given too much of his life to a mere earthly love. Then, again, Laura reappears beautified in his memory, and is again tremblingly half-conjured away.

Vernon Lee - Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the: Renaissance - Vol. II