re-behold

Updated: June 5, 2025

And it is because of things of this kind that many curious people are found to be his worshipers who will never themselves pass forth "to re-behold the stars." They are unwise who find Dante so bitter and theological, so Platonic and devoted, that they cannot open his books. They little know what ambiguous planets, what dark heathen meteors move on the fringe of his great star-lit road.

John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions

And there, O reader! they were greeted in welcome by one an old and revered acquaintance of thine whom in such a scene it will equally astound and wound thee to re-behold. Know, then But first we will describe to thee the occupation and the garb of the August personage to whom we allude.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 05

It is very enlivening indeed to re-behold the world in its entirety through the medium of a truly energetic man; for the Germans seldom know how to inspire in details, and never as a whole. I here find an entirely natural transition to the information which you give me that our friend Wolf is not satisfied with Niebuhr's work, although he preëminently should have had reason to be.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

And there, O reader! they were greeted in welcome by one an old and revered acquaintance of thine whom in such a scene it will equally astound and wound thee to re-behold. Know, then But first we will describe to thee the occupation and the garb of the August personage to whom we allude.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete

In the jaws of Lucifer we see the man who sold Christ, and in the jaws of Lucifer the men who slew Caesar. We tremble, and come forth to re-behold the stars. The Critic as Artist. The appeal of all Art is simply to the artistic temperament. Art does not address herself to the specialist. Her claim is that she is universal, and that in all her manifestations she is one.

Oscar Wilde - Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

In the jaws of Lucifer we see the man who sold Christ, and in the jaws of Lucifer the men who slew Caesar. We tremble, and come forth to re-behold the stars. In the land of Purgation the air is freer, and the holy mountain rises into the pure light of day.

Oscar Wilde - Intentions