magnific

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Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy, some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most, and end faulty.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Power is power, my boy, and still Marks a man,—God's gift magnific, exercised for good or ill.

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

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

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

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