numen

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When in their breasts th'impetuous Numen rowls, And with uncommon heaves swells their Diviner Souls.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel

In Lucretius we have mentis numen, and also Numen Augusti.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Vignoli, Tito

With Bentley’s13 critical acumen230 Explore the haunts of evil’s Numen; And in the hundreds of Old Drury, Descant de legibus Naturæ14.

From No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem by Boswell, James

This individual was an old Hollander, named Van Numen, who as a connoisseur in precious stones, was probably without his rival in Paris.

From Monsieur Lecoq by Gaboriau, Émile

Thus, when o'er deluged earth her Numen stood, The tost ark bounding on the shoreless flood, The sacred treasure fixt his guardian view, While climes unnoticed in the wave withdrew.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel