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Her spirits were as buoyant as a child's; and her playful mood soon communicated itself to her travelling companions. They compared the solitary ray to virtue in loneliness to the flickering of a lamp in a tomb to a star reflected on quicksilver to the flash of a sword cutting through a host of foes and to the light of genius illuming scenes of poverty and distress.
And examining the same question from the inside from the side of the mental processes implied in the act of creation I have tried to adapt the conclusions of Coleridge to a view which should not pre-suppose his metaphysic, and have asked what is implied in this fineness or illuming quality in a work of art, this which is called beautiful.
The sun, rising behind Machaerus, spread a rosy flush over the sky, lighting up the stony shores, the hills, and the desert, and illuming the distant mountains of Judea, rugged and grey in the early dawn.
And for a few moments there gleamed far away to the left a spot of bright light, marvellously clear and illuming, where the white breast of a clearing on the mountain had received these last few rays of sun. A warm golden pathway led through the forest to it from the sun. That distant spot of sunny snow was radiant, still, uplifting. Suddenly gloom again!
Here Nature is unapproachable with her green, airy canopy, a sun-impregnated cloud cloud above cloud; and though the highest may be unreached by the eye, the beams yet filter through, illuming the wide spaces beneath chamber succeeded by chamber, each with its own special lights and shadows.
"How is it," I asked, "that you are so well acquainted with these things? Were you at any time my father's friend?" "I was acquainted with him," Ray answered. "We were at one time in the same regiment. My friendship was with your mother." The answer was illuming, but he never winced. "Indirectly," I said, "I seem to have a good deal to thank you for.
Starting from certain axioms or self-evident propositions, and looking at art from the outside, I suggested that it must provide us with an energetic experience which we value for its own sake without thought of consequences or alien interests, an experience which has a fineness or an illuming quality of its own.
O Lord of fairest presence, whose illuming rays * Clear off the fogs of doubt aye veiling deeds high famed, Ne'er cease thy face to shine like Dawn and rise of Morn * And never show Time's face with heat of ire inflamed!
Her sense of the baseness of his action now was like a lightning illuming every corner of the past: every equivocation, every concealment, every subterfuge he had practised, stood out before her, bare, stripped of every shred of apology or excuse. "He lies; he has always lied. Why should he not steal?" she exclaimed. "It is only another form of the same thing.
His better nature rose to the help of the angel with the flaming sword, and together they fought, as the giants of old fought the dragons in their path. Then hope came back, and courage grew, and resolution found new footing. He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.
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