c.1838 (date written),Emmeline Stuart Wortley, “Sonnet”, inSonnets, Written Chiefly during a Tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary, London: Joseph Rickerby,[…], published1839,→OCLC,page99:
Morning!—the Vestal Mother of the Sun / Seem'st thou to be, since from thy bosom born, / (Thou that firstglimpsest—like a white-stoled nun!—) / He springeth forth—Oh! thou triumphal Morn!— / His race of glory and of joy to run;[…]
Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has beenglimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would beglimpsed.
2008, David Pierce, “Saying Goodbye in ‘Eveline’: Emigration · The Language of ‘Eveline’”, inReading Joyce, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.:Routledge, published2013,→ISBN,page103:
The illumined portholes that Eveline[inEveline (1904) byJames Joyce]glimpses mean that the night is drawing in, that the ship will be sailing into the dark. 'Illumined' also carries its own gothic charge, and what sheglimpses is not therefore a passenger ship but a ship of death, more foreboding than inviting.
A hope that,glimpsed, must fade; / A form, illusion made, / That, vanishing, shall come no more again!
2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, inAmerica[1], volume182, number21:
Toglimpse the actual woman behind these texts in any kind of full and adequate way is impossible. New studies of the political, economic, social and cultural fabric of first-century Palestine, however, enable us to fill in aspects of her life in broad strokes.
1855 August 12 (date written),Nathaniel Hawthorne, “August 12th.[1855.]”, inPassages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume I, Boston, Mass.:Fields, Osgood, & Co., published1870,→OCLC,page249:
The door always opens directly into the kitchen, without any vestibule; and,glimpsing in, you see that a cottager's life must be the very plainest and homeliest that ever was lived by men and women.
O Lothſome place where I / Haue ſene and herd my dere / When in my hart her eye / Hath made her thought appere / Byglimſing with ſuch grace / As fortune it ne would, / That laſten any ſpace, / Betwene vs lenger ſhould.
[O]ur curious yeares can finde / The chriſtal glas, vvhichglimſeth braue & bright, / And ſhevves the thing, much better than it is, / Beguylde vvith foyles, of ſundry ſubtil ſights, / So that they ſeeme, and couet not to be.
Straitvvaies on heapes the thronging cloudes ariſe, / As though the heauen vvere angry vvith the night, / Deformed ſhadovves,glimpſing in his ſight / As darkenes, for it vvould more darkened be, / Through thoſe poore cranniesforcde it ſelfe to ſee.
(rare)Sometimes followed byout: toprovide a brief and incomplete look.
But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveeteTeian Poet[Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her[Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but aglims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend,[…]
All that could be gathered vvas, that he had lurked a vvhile about the out-ſide of the Tovvn, and that here and there one or other had aglimpſe of him as he did make his eſcape out ofManſoul,[…]
[T]o the ſouth a ſmall opening led the eye to aglimpſe of the landſcape belovv, vvhich, ſeen beyond the dark javvs of the cliff, appeared free, and light, and gaily coloured, melting avvay into the blue and diſtant mountains.
This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend—"I will be with you on your wedding-night!" Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from theglimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.
As the eye darts into these dusky chambers of death, it catchesglimpses of quaint effigies: some kneeling in nitches, as if in devotion; others stretched upon the tombs, with hands piously pressed together;[…]
And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or hisglimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose;[he] went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.
Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch aglimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, givingglimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged[Harrison] Ford playing a younger Indy[i.e.,Indiana Jones], is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering aglimpse of what you've missed.
[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus theglimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?
1610,G[iles] Fletcher, “Christs Victorie on Earth”, inChrists Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, ouer, and after Death, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…] C. Legge,→OCLC, stanza 25,page33:
Sunk in his[Despair's] skull, his ſtaring eyes did glovve, / That made him deadly looke, theirglimpſe did ſhovve / Like Cockatrices eyes, that ſparks of poyſon throvve.
They that held the Stars of heaven vvere but rayes and flaſhingglimpſes of the Empyreall light, through holes and perforations of the upper heaven, took of the natural ſhadovvs of ſtars,[…]
At length the forest of Falkland received them, and aglimpse of the moon showed the dark and huge tower, an appendage of royalty itself, though granted for a season to the Duke of Albany.
[W]e climb'd / The slope to Vivian-place, and turning saw /[…] / The shimmeringglimpses of a stream;[…]
1828 December,Thomas De Quincey, “Rhetoric”, inCritical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London:James Hogg & Sons, published1859,→OCLC,page25:
[…] English Crackenthorpius (who has the honour to be an ancestor of Mr.[William] Wordsworth), though buried for two centuries, will revisit theglimpses of the moon.
A reference to William Shakespeare's playHamlet—see thec. 1599–1602 quotation above.
Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which containglimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
[…] Alwin smiled, / When aught that from his young lips archly fell / The gloomy film from Harold's eye beguiled; / And pleased for aglimpse appeared the woeful Childe.
Reuiued with aglimſe of grace old ſorowes to let fal, / The hidden ſtraines I know and ſecret ſnares of loue: / How ſoone a loke wil print a thought, that neuer may remoue.
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