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Both psychology and science grope when they would explain to us the strange adventures of our immaterial selves when wandering in the realm of "Death's twin brother, Sleep." This story will not attempt to be illuminative; it is no more than a record of Murray's dream.
A few passages from her letters home are illuminative of these college years. Here are some snap-shots of her fellow students: "I never knew before that there were so many kinds of people in the world girls, I mean. All parts of the country are represented, and I suppose I shall always judge different cities and states by the girls they send here.
He had then passed to the illuminative stage, and had remained, again for one year, in the process of being informed, taught and kindled in preparation for the third and last stage of union with the Divine elsewhere named the Way of Perfection.
'Under His wings shalt thou flee for refuge. Is not that a vivid, intense, picturesque, but most illuminative way of telling us what is the very essence, and what is the urgency, and what is the worth, of what we call faith?
I am going to tell the story of their fight of May 8th, not to single them out from any other Canadian battalion, or any British battalions, but because the story came to me and it seemed illuminative of what other battalions had endured, this one picturesquely because of its membership and its distance from home. Losses in that Ypres salient at St.
Whenever the stopper is taken out in the night, sufficient light will be evolved to show the hour upon a watch; and if care be taken to keep it in general well closed, it will preserve its illuminative power for several months.
The third act plays in a large hall of the palace decorated for the wedding. She, to help along the plot to unmask him, consents to meet him in the garden. A wonderful grace rests upon the music of the duet, which Mozart's genius makes more illuminative than the words.
To me it is very illuminative, and very beautiful, that the dying Jacob bursts in his song into a sudden exclamation, 'I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord! It is as if he had felt that all his life long he had been looking for what had never come, and that it could not be that God was going to let him go down to the grave and never grasp the good that he had been waiting for all his days.
But the letters of an undergraduate especially when the person is Matthew Arnold, and the University the Oxford of the years 1841-45 ought to be not a little symptomatic, not a little illuminative.
The painter saw that his discretion was larger than he had imagined. If the reading had been disagreeably illuminative and Oswyn believed that under his surface composure he concealed, at least, a terrible wound to his pride he was not going to allow this impression to appear. "I might suggest that this document is a forgery," he said after a moment.
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