Literary notes about Splendor (AI summary)
Writers employ "splendor" as a versatile term that can evoke both the overwhelming beauty of nature and the dazzling opulence of human creations. In some works, the word paints vivid images of lush landscapes and radiant sunsets, as when the warm, glowing splendor streams through hill gaps or along seashores [1], or transforms a quiet room into a realm of ethereal brightness [2]. At the same time, it is used to underscore the extravagant, sometimes ostentatious displays of wealth and grandeur, imbuing royal courts and ruined cities alike with an almost timeless majesty [3][4]. Whether describing the resplendent aura of a celebrated monument or the luminous intensity of an inner virtue, "splendor" serves as a rich, evocative metaphor that bridges the natural, the historical, and the sublime [5][6].
- The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the warm splendor of it streamed down through the hill gaps in the west.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - I write, 5-1/2 P.M., here by the creek, nothing can exceed the quiet splendor and freshness around me.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Four of them were immediately rejected as unequal to the burden; and among these was Laodicea, whose splendor is still displayed in its ruins.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - He looked round him at the room; there was an ostentatious character about the luxury, a meretricious taste in the splendor.
— from Father Goriot by HonorĂ© de Balzac - Thus each alternate season did homage to the Maypole, and paid it a tribute of its own richest splendor.
— from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The splendor of the sun shall have a special dawn for you.' "Lo!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
