1 Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.
2 "You must have a vast and magnificent estate," said Candide to the Turk.
3 He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 4 The Bishop alone remained; he filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 5 A squadron of magnificent body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 6 Of her eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and that they had magnificent lashes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 7 A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 8 A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the genius of man with the powers of nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 9 It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds which exist in the woods there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL 10 The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Thenardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, and magnificent objects of tin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 11 Such magnificent and beautiful things did not appear real.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES 12 Long, full curtains hung from the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE 13 He was kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind would have been magnificent.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 14 Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 15 One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST