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Updated: June 22, 2025
To get rid of one's ignorance, to see things as they are, and by seeing them as they are to see them in their beauty, is the simple and attractive ideal which Hellenism holds out before human nature; and from the simplicity and charm of this ideal, Hellenism, and human life in the hands of Hellenism, is invested with a kind of aërial ease, clearness, and radiancy; they are full of what we call sweetness and light.
But there was an air of manly confidence on the brow of the Scot a radiancy of hope, which amounted even to cheerfulness; while, although pride and effort had recalled much of Conrade's natural courage, there lowered still on his brow a cloud of ominous despondence.
There was a strange new radiancy, a living brightness to her that seemed almost unreal. Exquisitely unreal her voice, too, and the slightly bent head, crowned with the splendour of her hair; and the slowly raised eyes, two deep blue miracles tinged with the hues of paradise. "There's no use," sighed Drina, "I shall not be able to dance.
But those same fish that I gazed at in amazement in the tanks of the museums are spread out here on tables for my buying. Impossible fish they are, pale blue; brilliant yellow; black as charcoal; sloe, with orange stripes; scarlet, spotted, and barred in rainbow tints. The parrot-fish are especially splendid in spangling radiancy, their tails and a spine in their mouths giving them their name.
For an instant Jurgen saw the place oppressed by that attenuated mile-long shadow, as in heraldry you may see a black bar painted sheer across some brightly emblazoned shield. Then the radiancy of everything twitched and vanished, as a bubble bursts. And Jurgen was standing in the midst of a field, very neatly plowed, but with nothing as yet growing in it.
From every spot a lamp, a torch, a lantern, tinted with every hue, burst forth; enormous cressets of silver radiancy beamed on the top of each chartak, and huge bonfires of ruddy flame started up along the whole horizon. For seven days and seven nights this unparalleled scene of rejoicing, though ever various, never ceased.
In the first, he expects an angel for a wife; in the last, he knows that she is like himself erring, thoughtless, and untrue; but like himself also, filled with a struggling radiancy of better things, and adorned with ineffective qualities.
Cornelia would be present in all her radiancy; and who there would be more radiant than she? Battling for Life And then it was, with the chariots bearing the guests almost driving in at the gates of the palace, that Cerrinius, Cæsar's barber, came before his master with an alarming tale.
"What radiancy of glory, what bliss beyond compare." But I knowed that singin' that time of day would be apt to draw attention, specially as Josiah's singin' wuz very base and my sulferino hain't what it wuz, and I hastened to say: "Yes, Josiah, I want to go."
Around the garden was an unforgotten circle of blue hills. And this was a place of lucent twilight, unlit by either sun or stars, and with no shadows anywhere in the diffused faint radiancy that revealed this garden, which is not visible to any man except in the brief interval between dawn and sunrise.
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