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In his extreme old age, the ex-king took a journey to Scotland, to see the Author of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." Nor should we do justice to the chief's critical discernment if we neglected to record that, from the earliest dawn of that great luminary of our age, he predicted its meridian splendour.
With habit and repetition he gained to an extraordinary degree the power to penetrate the dusk of distances and the darkness of corners, to resolve back into their innocence the treacheries of uncertain light, the evil-looking forms taken in the gloom by mere shadows, by accidents of the air, by shifting effects of perspective; putting down his dim luminary he could still wander on without it, pass into other rooms and, only knowing it was there behind him in case of need, see his way about, visually project for his purpose a comparative clearness.
The achievements of this king resemble the sun himself of blazing effulgence. And his fame hath travelled in all directions like the rays of that luminary. And like the rays following the risen sun of blazing effulgence, ten thousand swift elephants followed him, O king, when he dwelt among the Kurus.
Id est, The Literary Scourge. See ante, ii. 236, where Johnson attacks 'the verbiage of Robertson. 'We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Henry's eyes were riveted to that fearful object, and now a scene presented itself which filled them all with wonder and astonishment, mingled with sensations of the greatest awe and alarm. As the moonbeams, in consequence of the luminary rising higher and higher in the heavens, came to touch this figure that lay extended on the rising ground, a perceptible movement took place in it.
The somberest shadows, the most neutral twilights, the most austere recesses are lighted by it as though so many freakish sunbeams had severed relations with the parent luminary to rest quietly in the coolnesses of the ancient forest. Underfoot the pine-needles were springy beneath the horse's hoof. The trail went softly, with the courtesy of great gentleness.
Among the gentlemen of learning, talents, and eminence in Alfred's own profession, whom Caroline had the honour of seeing at her brother's, were Mr. Friend, the friend of his early years at the bar; and that great luminary, who in a higher orbit had cheered and guided him in his ascent.
"The central luminary is, of course, the sun, and the others are the planets with their satellites." "They seem to float in air." "That is because their supports are invisible, or nearly so. Both their lights and periodic motions are produced by the electric current." "Surely they are not moving now?"
To believe in a woman, to make her your human religion, the fount of life, the secret luminary of all your least thoughts! is not this a second birth? And a young man mingles with this love a little of the feeling he had for his mother. Rodolphe and Francesca for some time remained in perfect silence, answering each other by sympathetic glances full of thoughts.
He kissed her, and the vision of the critical world faded to a blank. Whatever she was, he was her prime luminary, so he determined to think that he cast light upon a precious, an unrivalled land. "You are my own, are you not, Emilia?" "Yes; I am," she answered. "That water seems to say 'for ever," he murmured; and Emilia's fingers pressed upon his. Of marriage there was no further word.
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