Nature
enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
how little does the memory of these human inhabitants
enhance the beauty of the landscape
In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races; yet in him they
enhance his nobleness and grace; as Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
Tacit obedience implies no force upon the will, and consequently may be easily, and without any pains, preserved; but when a wife, a child, a relation, or a friend, performs what we desire, with grumbling and reluctance, with expressions of dislike and dissatisfaction, the manifest difficulty which they undergo must greatly
enhance the obligation.
She knew this superficial gentleness, this confession of hastiness, that was only intended to
enhance her admiration of the male.
For what they dare to touch and break with the impudence and irreverence of the unappreciative, he seems likewise to touch and break,--but with other fingers--with the fingers of the loving and unembarrassed artist who is on good terms with the beautiful and who feels able to create it and to
enhance it with his touch.
It was he who gave your show away," chuckled the wretch, dropping for a moment the affected style of speech which seemed intended to
enhance our humiliation; "smart detectives don't go about with little innocents to assist them.
Cultivation and refinement seem but to
enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm; and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, which renders an educated American one of the most endearing and most generous of friends.
The younger partner had, by this time, brought the business into sound trim; and the elder, left free to follow his own ingenious devices, had done much to
enhance the character of the factory.
Bardell, especially as it might be reasonably supposed to
enhance her consequence in the eyes of the first-floor lodger.
