"Angelical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good lady; But, as in form you are angelical, Imitate the heavenly natures, and vouchsafe At least awhile to hear me. You will grant, The blood that runs in this arm is as noble As that which fills your veins; your swelling titles, Equipage and fortune; ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 • Various
... for them on the cross; but it was profounder far than theirs, when it shed no tears, and only made the paleness of his countenance more like that which we imagine to be the paleness of a phantom. No one ever saw him angry, complaining, or displeased; for angelical indeed was his temper, purified, like gold in fire, by suffering. He shunned not the company of other children, but loved all, as by them all he was more than beloved. In few of their plays could he take an active share; but sitting a little way off, still attached to ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... with diabolical, no, angelical cunning, to save the old man from ridicule, and to do his soul much good. All souls were dear to her. What was the consequence? He went about with his mint, and relieved poor people, and gratified his mania at the same time. His face began to beam with benevolence ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... say not, if it were an angelical Soul: And there is no Difference between an Angel and a human Soul, but that the Soul of a Man was formed to act a human Body compos'd of natural Organs; and as the Soul of a Beetle will move nothing but the Body of ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... a sister on earthly dominions! Cried two of the holy Angelical train, And flew up to heaven with fluttering pinions, But quickly to earth they descended again; Their brothers, with voices triumphantly lifted, Behind them came flocking this wonder to view, More fast than the gleam from the cloud that is rifted, Down, ...
— Targum • George Borrow
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