Sunbeam. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Sunbeam


Her face appears to be wrapped in a veil of sunbeams: unblemished is her complexion, and her skin is without a wrinkle. Sir William Jones.—Poem of Tarafa, Verse 10, Vol. VIII.	1
In the warm shadow of her loveliness, He kisses her with his beams. Shelley.—The Witch of Atlas, Stanza 2.	2
Here was a murder bravely carried through The eye of observation, unobserved. Cyril Tourneur.—The Atheist’s Tragedy.	3
A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted. Eusebius.—De Demonstratione Evangelica, Book IV. Chap. 13. Fourth Article of the Creed.	4
[Lord Bacon.—Advancement of Learning, title Hist. of Nature; and Lillie’s Euphues, Book II.; Notes and Queries, N.S. Vol. III. Page 218; but in page 336 of the same volume, the idea is traced by Mr. Smirke to Tertullian.]	5
Christ alone, like his emblem the light, passed through all things undefiled. Horne.—On Psalm xxvi. Verse 4; and on Psalm xviii. Verse 20.	6
And face to face standing, Look I on God as he is, a sun unpolluted by vapours. Longfellow.—From Bishop’s Tegner’s Children on the Lord’s Supper.	7
The sun, if he could avoid it, would not shine upon a dunghill; but his rays are so pure, Eliza, and celestial—I never heard that they were polluted by it. Sterne.—Letter 87, to Eliza.	8
For a preserving spirit doth still pass Untainted through this mass. Vaughan.—Resurrection and Immortality, Stanza 2.	9