divinest

• “I had the divinest evening; Oxford meant so much to me ....”

  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

• “STRANGER: But in those who were originally of a noble nature, and who have been nurtured in noble ways, and in those only, may we not say that union is implanted by law, and that this is the medicine which art prescribes for them, and of all the bonds which unite the dissimilar and contrary parts of virtue is not this, as I was saying, the divinest?”

  The Statesman

• “When it is mingled with black bile and dispersed about the courses of the head, which are the divinest part of us, the attack if coming on in sleep, is not so severe; but when assailing those who are awake it is hard to be got rid of, and being an affection of a sacred part, is most justly called sacred.”

  Timaeus

• “Although I cannot comply with the latter part of their intercession, have not you, Sir, from the best rules, and from the divinest example, taught me to forgive injuries?”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Like the satyr in his language too; for he uses the commonest words as the outward mask of the divinest truths.”

  The Symposium

• “He thought Miss ‘Melia’s playing the divinest music ever performed, and her the finest lady.”

  Vanity Fair

• “In a word, I may say that he who does not estimate the base and evil, the good and noble, according to the standard of the legislator, and abstain in every possible way from the one and practise the other to the utmost of his power, does not know that in all these respects he is most foully and disgracefully abusing his soul, which is the divinest part of man; for no one, as”

  Laws

• “The teaching of her Church was to her divinest truth.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “This is why the Primum Mobile has the swiftest movement; for because of the most fervent desire that each part of the ninth heaven has to be conjoined with every part of that divinest, tranquil heaven, to which it is contiguous, it revolves beneath it with such desire that its velocity is almost incomprehensible.”

  Dante Alighieri

• “The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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