At length I saw a lady within call,
Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there;
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.
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"A Dream of Fair Women", st. 22.Alfred Tennyson (Lord)
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It is curious that the popular conceptions of evil and malignant beings are of the type that would be produced by increased gravitation — toads, reptiles, and noisome creeping things — while the arch fiend himself is represented as perhaps the ultimate form which could be assumed by a thinking brain and its necessary machinery were the power of gravitation to be increased to the highest point compatible with existence — a serpent crawling along the ground. On the other hand, our highest types of beauty are those which would be common under decreased gravitation.
The "daughter of the gods, divinely tall," and the leaping athlete, please us by the slight triumph over the earthward pull which their stature or spring implies.William Crookes
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and denned; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.
John Ruskin
I come back as I always do to the greatness of mankind's curse, and I repeat it with the monotony of those who are always right — oh, without God, without a harbour, without enough rags to cover us, all we have, standing erect on the land of the dead, is the rebellion of our smile, the rebellion of being gay when darkness envelops us. We are divinely alone, the heavens have fallen on our heads.
Henri Barbusse
[She is also clearly tickled by the memories of meeting the stars who have guest appearances on the show — Samuel L. Jackson ([ or Sam Jackson, as I call him now... One day, Ben was doing his stuff and Ricky looked at me and went, 'What's Ben Stiller doing here? That's Ben Stiller.' It was a bit like that all the time — surreal.
Ben Stiller
O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.
Friedrich von Schiller
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