afflatus

1 Cf. also the use of the Latin rabies for the "divine afflatus," as in �neid, vi.

2 To tell the truth," and he gave Fell a whimsical glance, "I am head over ears in some new business matters which have actually fired me with the divine afflatus of enthusiasm.

3 "I don't know whether I'd be able to discuss that divine afflatus with you or not," returned Lester, with a touch of grim humor.

4 Even when his environment was all that he could wish, there were times when the divine afflatus would not come and the day’s work must be abandoned.

5 The afflatus of rhythm, even if it be the pomp of the Alexandrine, sublimates the passion, and clarifies its mutterings into poetry.

6 The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her "vortex," hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.

7 VI Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

8 So it seems that our poet drank in the divine afflatus, as it were, with his mother's milk.

9 Still, as much as in Apostolic times, does the Divine afflatus dwell in man, and the man so endowed becomes a prophet, and declares the will of God. 

10 Stories simmered in my brain, demanding to be writ; but I let them simmer, knowing that the longer the divine afflatus was bottled up the better it would be.

11 In 2003, powered by an afflatus of unknown origin, Barbour ran for governor of Mississippi.

12 It may be known under other names, of credit or discredit, as mysticism, ecstasy, rhapsody, demoniac possession, the divine afflatus, the gnosis, or, in its latest christening, 'cosmic consciousness.'

13 Personal leadership has undoubtedly played a great part in connection with afflatus, in gathering and guiding the religious Communities.

14 I fancied as she came––’twas all in a flash––that into this rare creation He had breathed a spirit harmonious with the afflatus of its conception.

15 This epistle shows that St Paul was touched with the poetic as well as the prophetical afflatus.

16 There was evidently an afflatus on the men, and they wrote and acted as they were moved.

17 The ship's sails being slack denotes a falling off of afflatus or spiritual influx, loss of trade, misfortune, delays and bad news, or if news is expected it will not come to hand.

18 No celestial inspiration Gilds the poet's cheerless den, Kindles his imagination, Stirs his sluggish pen; No divine afflatus, blowing From some charmed Pierian font, Starts the springs of fancy flowing Like the spur of Want.

19 So I found the divine afflatus did descend.

20 It feels the afflatus of the higher spirit dwelling in the parent, and out of this feeling is generated the sentiment of reverence.

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