Glorious as the Spring. - MASSIN GER. Glorious as a midnight star. — C. G. ROSSETTI. Glorious as purple twilight. IBID. Thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals. - SHAKESPEARE. Sweet and glorious as compassion. SWINBURNE. Glorious as the sea. - IBID. Rose glorious as with gleam of gold unpriced. - IBID. Glorious as if a glimpse were given Glorious as unclouded May. — JOHN TOBIN. Glorious as the new-built town. - WALLER. Glorious, like the seer-seen angel Glory. WHITTIER. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to SHAKESPEARE. naught. As the vine is the glory of the trees it clasps, as the grapes of the vine, as the bull of the herd, as the standing corn of the fruitful field, thou and thou alone art the glory of those who love thee. - VIRGIL. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light. -JOHN WEBSTER. Glossy. Glossy as a shark's tooth. — ARLO BATES. Glowed like the arbutus or beech of the Umbrian hills. J. H. NEWMAN. Glow like paint on death's shrunk cheek. - MILES O'REILLY. Jewels... glowing like sunbeams. - OUIDA. The Court, it glows, and shines like rotten wood. - SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Glows like a golden group of buttercups.-T. BUCHANAN READ. Glowed, like great archangels moving slow On some celestial road. IBID. Her white forehead glowed like a rose. - CHARLES READE. Glow like a flower.-C. G. Ros Glowing like the vital morn. IBID. Glow As a heart burns with some divine thing done. SWINBURNE. Glow... like the sunset's flush on a field of snow. - BAYARD TAYLOR. Glows, like baker's oven. WILLIAM TENNANT. Glowed as a cloud worn thin.WALTER THORNBURY. Glow like a great pearl. JOHN C. VAN DYKE. With beauty glows like that of Venus, where she rose naked in blushing charms from Ocean's hoary wave. - JOSEPH WARTON. Glum. Glum as an oyster. Glum as mud. - IBID. ANON. Gnaw me, like a burning worm. BUNYAN. Gnawed as with a file.-D. G. ROSSETTI. Gnaw like fire. - SWINBURNE. Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a bean In the dusty dark of a ghost-frequented house. - ARTHUR SYMONS. |