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The Renaissance spread its influence, established its standards and introduced that wave of productiveness which always followed its introduction. There are many who doubt the superiority of the voluptuous art of the high Renaissance. Before us Raphael presents his full figures replete with action, rich with broad, open curves in nudity, and magnificent with lines of flowing drapery.
At the end of that time the fire had burned itself out, and a few upright posts still flickering with tongues of fire, and a heap of glowing embers marked where the pretty bungalow, replete with every luxury and comfort, had stood an hour before. Dick was the first to move; he touched Ned's arm. "All is quiet here now, but they may take it into their heads to come back and search.
Our union is not held together by standing armies or by any ties other than the positive interests and powerful attractions of its parts toward each other. The history of the world is replete with examples of this kind of military commanders and demagogues becoming usurpers and tyrants, and of their fellow-citizens becoming their instruments and slaves.
These touches would have been graced by the hand of that artist, or by another of equal delicacy of appreciation, Charles Conder unforgettable spaces replete with the essence of fancy, of dream, of those farther recesses of the imagination.
Simile, metaphor, personification, antithesis, balance, climax, rhetorical question, and repetition are all effective aids in the presentation of argument. The speeches of great orators are replete with expressions of this sort.
He made admirable discoveries in science; his philosophical treatises are still well worth reading; his political works are full of insight and replete with the spirit of freedom; and while all these sparks flew off from his anvil, the controversial hammer rained a hail of blows on orthodox priest and bishop.
The imperfect sense of some examples I lamented, but could not remedy, and hope they will be compensated by innumerable passages selected with propriety, and preserved with exactness; some shining with sparks of imagination, and some replete with treasures of wisdom.
Natalie, perceiving the sudden sadness of her friend, attempted to smile, and, grasping his hand, she said: "Come, Paulo, we are naughty children, and vex ourselves with vagaries, while all nature is so cheerful and so replete with divine beauty. Only see with what glowing splendor the departing sun rests upon the tops of the cypresses! Ah, it is nowhere so beautiful as here in my dear garden.
One of the most aberrant pictures of the sun, which I think can be identified with probability, is shown in the design on the specimen illustrated in plate CXXXIV, b. The reasons which have led me to this identification may briefly be stated as follows: Among the many supernaturals with which modern Hopi mythology is replete is one called Calako-taka, or the male Calako.
But our winter residence in the quaint old town revealed to us the existence of a life that is all its own a life widely variant, in its calm repose, from the bustle and gaiety of the capital, but one that is replete with charm, and abounding in picturesque-interest. Versailles is not ancient; it is old, completely old. Since the fall of the Second Empire it has stood still.
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