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"suspirium," was growing, not only close to the snow, but in it.
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Nam quod putant _Heu taceo_ suspirium esse ejus -- indicem doloris ob abductam uxorem magni sed latentis, nobis non ita videtur; sed notatam potius fuisse tyrannidem principis, qui omnia in suo genere pulchra et excellentia possessoribus eriperet, unde necessitas incumbebat sua bona dissimulandi celandique. '
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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It is "the silent finger" that points to heaven; it is an upward aspiration of the soul; a prayer from the depths of a troubled heart; a _suspirium de profundis; _ a hymn of thanksgiving; a pure life, throwing of the worldly and approaching the ethereal; a finite mind searching, till lost in the vastness of the unknown and unapproachable; a beautiful attempt; a voice of praise sent up from the earth, till, like the soaring lark, it
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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