Citations:embrighten


 * 1) Brighten; vivify.
 * The sky with stars, the stars with light on high;
 * Thou hast the earth replenish’d with thy stores,
 * Cloth’d it with trees, with herbs, with fruits and
 * Whereof are numbers not to be express’d, [flow’rs,
 * By various marks distinguish’d from the rest. […]
 * But now, embrighten’d into heav’nly flame,
 * The sun itself outglitters, though he should
 * Climb to the top of the celestial frame,
 * And force the stars to hide themselves for shame:
 * Before, that under earth was buried,
 * But now above the heav’ns is carried,
 * And there for ever by the angels heried.1
 * As to waken the ear of the heroes above;
 * While young Liberty smiles from her azure-hued throne,
 * And her favorite sons bless the land that they love.
 * Here the Spirit of Beauty, midst fountains and flowers,
 * Has embrighten’d her colors, and painted the bowers;
 * And her rosy cheeks flush, and her starry eyes shine,
 * For her dwelling on earth is so like her divine!
 * “Courting encounter with this Badramoot;
 * “But when I viewed the splendour of the King,
 * “And saw his face embrighten, like a cloud […]
 * For her dwelling on earth is so like her divine!
 * “Courting encounter with this Badramoot;
 * “But when I viewed the splendour of the King,
 * “And saw his face embrighten, like a cloud […]
 * “And saw his face embrighten, like a cloud […]