magnific

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Thus far, in magnific strain, A young poet soothed his vein, But he had nor prose nor numbers, To express a princess' slumbers.—

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet: night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Geneva refused asylum to the proscribed philosopher; he was warned of hostile intentions on the part of the magnific signiors of Berne.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

Or, again, this of the sun swinging himself above the dark shoulder of Jura — "Gay he hails her, and magnific, thrilled her black length burns to gold."

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William