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Updated: May 4, 2025
Her voice soared: "In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With the glory in his bosom which transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free While God is marching on " "Look," said the Doctor. "Do you see their faces, Derry?" Gazing up at her as if they drank her in, the men listened.
In Samson Agonistes Milton turns to a more vital and personal theme, and his genius transfigures the story of Samson, the mighty champion of Israel, now blind and scorned, working as a slave among the Philistines. The poet's aim was to present in English a pure tragedy, with all the passion and restraint which marked the old Greek dramas.
So He takes our vanities and, one by one, strews them among the winds, and we raise no protest; takes our prides and breaks them in pieces, and we submit; takes our self-gratifications and reduces them to dust, and we stand stripped but patient; takes the natural lusts of the creature and transfigures them to Holy Love.
Courage! for life is hasting To endless life away; The inner fire, unwasting, Transfigures our dull clay See the stars melting, sinking, In life wine, golden bright We, of the splendour drinking, Shall grow to stars of light. Lost, lost are all our losses; Love set for ever free; The full life heaves and tosses Like an eternal sea! One endless living story! One poem spread abroad!
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door: a moment and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again. Goethe's fragments of art-criticism contain a few pages of strange pregnancy on the character of Winckelmann.
The Englishman describes the given reality, the Frenchman analyses it, the German transfigures it. The English thinker keeps as close as possible to phenomena, and the principles which he uses in the explanation of phenomena themselves lie in the realm of concrete experience.
"No, no! it is I who am your slave, your faithful page, whom you see as a breath of air, upon whom you can walk as on a carpet. My heart is your throne." "No, dearest, for thy voice transfigures me." "Your regard burns me." "I see but thee." "I love but you." "Oh! put thine hand upon my heart only thine hand and thou will see me pale, when my blood shall have taken the heat of thine."
As a rough unsightly bud might suddenly blossom into the most lovely flower; or rather, as a sunbeam bursts through a shapeless cloud, and transfigures the earth; so burst a face of resplendent beauty, as it were THROUGH the unsightly visage of the woman, destroying it with light as it dawned through it.
In the same way family life, if toilsome, either at home or in a new country, may be inspired by the example of the Holy Family in Nazareth; and in lonely and hard conditions, as well as in the stress of our crowded ways of living, the influence of that ideal reaches down to the foundations and transfigures the very humblest service of the household.
"Try to love me, Tita." Slowly, very slowly, she stirs within his arms. She looks up at him. It is such a strange look. It transfigures the beautiful little face, making it even more beautiful than it was before. But Maurice, who is hanging on it, to whom it means life or death, does not dare translate the expression.
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