loftiness

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• She has left us this bright folio of her "lightning and fragrance in one," scintillant with stardust as perhaps no other before her, certainly not in this country, none with just her celestial attachedness, or must we call it detachedness, and withal also a sublime, impertinent playfulness which makes her images dance before one like offspring of the great round sun, fooling zealously with the universes at her feet, and just beyond her eye, with a loftiness of spirit and of exquisite trivialness seconded by none. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• Time will easily solve the latter inconsistency, but the loftiness of Paterson's tone is more troubling.
• Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
• Wild his work is assuredly — extravagant sometimes to our wish, and supernatural even to the very limits of poetic belief; but the genius is stamped on every page: feelings such as the muse delights in abound, nay overflow, while a true heroic loftiness of soul, such as influenced devout men of old when they warred for their country, glows and flashes through the whole narrative. A Review of 'Alroy'
• Ah, let them still call loftiness of purpose and whiteness of soul the dreams of a theorist, -- even if they be so, the Ideal in this case is better than the Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
• He found himself indulging in the most petty meannesses, and following these with flashes of a kind of loftiness of mind. Windy McPherson's Son
• But the daughter of Theodosius submitted, without reluctance, to the desires of the conqueror, a young and valiant prince, who yielded to Alaric in loftiness of stature, but who excelled in the more attractive qualities of grace and beauty. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Always a promising singer, in the past he has seemed to hide something of his personality behind a certain emotional loftiness.
• The selection of belief should be based on rationality, reality, loftiness and healthiness.
• While laws are prescribed to matrons ... virginity and continency are beyond all law; there is nothing in the laws of matrimony which pertains to virginity; for by its loftiness it transcends them all. Archive 2009-05-03