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• Science needs to demonstrate Overbye's point: to show how it can "ennoble" us. —  Omni: October 1993
• It is of especial interest, in calling attention to the fact that the creator of Pompilia, Balaustion, and the heroine of the "Inn Album"--all central figures, whence radiate the life and spiritual energy of the work they ennoble--had, at this period, created no typical figures of women in any degree corresponding to those of his men CHARLOTTE PORTER HELEN A. CLARKE TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS 1855 Stop playing, poet! —  Men and Women
• Of these four Italian poets perhaps only the severe Florentine has won his way outside of the boundaries of the language he did so much to ennoble,--altho it may be admitted that the gentle Petrarch had also for a century a wide influence on the lyrists of other tongues Lowell had a more cosmopolitan outlook on literature, when he discust 'The Five Indispensable Authors'--Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakspere, and Goethe. —  Inquiries and Opinions
• The power of sheer style to ennoble is better seen in Sully Prudhomme's tours de force of philosophic poetry--when he unfolds his ideas upon 'Justice' or 'Happiness', for instance, under the form of a debate where masterly resources of phrase and image are compelled to the service of a rigorous logic; or in the brief cameo-like pieces on 'Memory', 'Habit', 'Forms', and similar unpromising abstractions, most nearly paralleled in English by the quatrains of Mr. William Watson. —  Recent Developments in European Thought
• When he has learned to appreciate whatever is ćsthetically appreciable in his problem, he can go on to refine his construction, to ennoble, and finally to decorate it. —  The Life of Reason

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