"Immensity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this time Sejanus was so imposing both in his haughtiness of mind and in his immensity of power that, to make a long matter short, he seemed to be the emperor and Tiberius a kind of island potentate because the latter spent all his days in the island called Capreae. Then there was rivalry and jostling about the great man's doors from ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 • Cassius Dio
... this was surely the mightiest genius since Milton. In poetry there is not his like, when he rose to his full power; he was a philosopher, the immensity of whose mind cannot be gauged by anything he has left behind; a critic, the subtlest and most profound of his time. Yet these vast and varied powers flowed away in the shifting sands of talk; and what remains ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... ceaseless darkness where she is denied! We know not our existence till we hide Our soul within another's there to be Its very being: like a river wide Love rolls its endless volumes to the sea, Losing itself within its own immensity. ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott
... a pessimist, nor misanthrope, nor grumbler; I bear it all, the burden of Public Affairs, the immensity of Space, the brevity of Life, and the thought of the all-swallowing Grave—all this I put up with without impatience. I accept the common lot. And if now and then for a moment it seems too much; if I get my feet wet, or have to wait too long for tea, and my soul in these wanes ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... not put into definite form the precise disloyalty which had driven a broken-hearted girl to seek the shelter of the hills, but he understood her mood. Hating her kind and believing that she could lose herself in the immensity of the landscape, she had come to the mountains only to be cruelly disillusioned. The Kitsongs had taught her that in the wilderness a woman is ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
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