It must however be owned that we become reconciled to this mass of factitious embellishments by a tone which seems to have been inspired by Piety itself; the message whispers in a celestial atmosphere, Θειη ἀμφεχυτ' ὀμφη — and so forcibly appears its magic effect to have influenced Tintoretto himself, ever ready to rush from one extreme to another, that he imitated it in the Annunciata of the Arimani Palace:
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli
[Pg 124] LEONARDSLEE To take train to Faygate and walk from that spot is the simplest way, although more interesting is it perhaps to come to Faygate at the end of the day, and, gaining permission to climb the Beacon Tower on the hill, in the Holmbush estate, retrace one's steps in vision from its summit.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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