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Oh, never till then I knew the worth / Of woman’s love, its power to bless; / Which like the star, shines brightliest forth, / In darkest hour of bitterness!
Then Hector strove to break the rang’d array, / Where brightliest mail’d the densest squadrons lay; […]
Him I remember while this life endures. / The day lives brightliest in my memory / When from a matin fate he snatched my days.
When danger, or the dread of it, encompasses the soul—when timidity fluctuates and excitement roars—who then controls? Not he, whose intellect is most logically practised—whose memory is richest stored—whose tongue is brightliest eloquent: but he whose eye blenches least—whose heart beats the calmest: he, it is, is master of the hour.
But while the sun shone /brightest⟩brightliest/,—(and it shines now—) I said “The cold wind is felt thro’ it all,—she keeps the room!” The wind is unremitting,—savage.
The dawn breaks at the darkest hour; / Stars brightliest shine when midnight skies / Are palled in gloom; […]
At night, / When all the stars burned brightliest, and the bowers / Of song were silent, he in stealth returned— / And lo! the Spirit slumbering as before.
[H]e [Edwin Guest] looks upon the final e of the adjective as being […] the affixed e which in Anglo-Saxon converted an adjective into an adverb. Thus, in the line from the Clerke’s Tale, in the Canterbury Tales, he regards bright-e as representing, not our present adjective bright, but our adverb brightly. In the superlative, however, he affirms, it is not the adverb, but the adjective, that takes the e; in other words, that brightest is brighteste, and that brightliest is brightest.
E’en Affection’s light is gone / Quickly where it brightliest shone, / And the tones that charm’d thy care / Leave dead silence on the air; / Is such thy home?
She haughtily swept by the Sassenach maiden, / Whose brow was with jewels the brightliest laden!
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In the superlative the adverb terminated in -est simply, as in A.S. swiftost and swiftest=Old English swiftest=modern swiftliest. So brightest=brightliest, adv.; but brighteste=brightest, adj.
Pause not on the path of duty! / Progress is life’s law divine; / Rest doth rust—the rays of beauty / Brightliest when fleetest shine.
You are afraid of death—of the judgment—of eternity. That is thirst! Alas, I know it, for I have stood in the green places, where life’s water sparkled brightliest to mortal lips, and found the cup dashed with wormwood, and longed the while for water from a purer spring.
Poetry is Faith; / It sees the throne of God, / Beyond the frozen seas of death, / In realms by Angels trod. / It blossoms brightliest above, / Where all is pure and perfect love!
As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’
Warm is our blood and our manhood the knightliest, / Loyal our service and gracious our quest. / How should we doubt when the sunlight falls brightliest? / How should we fear when time’s yoke presses lightliest? / What should we see but the glow of the West / In the eyes we love best?
In the southwest the Great Dog with the splendid Sirius (“which brightliest shines when laved of ocean’s wave”) shows resplendently.
Faiths as faiths perish one after another, but each in passing away bequeaths for the enrichment of the after-world whatever elements it has contained of imaginative or moral truth or beauty. The polytheism of ancient Greece, embodying the instinctive effort of the brightliest-gifted human race to explain its earliest experiences of nature and civilization, of the thousand moral and material forces, cruel or kindly, which environ and control the life of man on earth, is rich beyond measure in such elements; […]
Hail, O sacred Isle, / That brightliest to heaven’s rosiest dawn dost smile!
Had I been a star, / I had put discord in the sphery music, / Were I not Venus, and burned brightliest.
It is the hour when stars and women brightliest beam.
Because from thy pure bosom brightliest spring / The pure and sacred fires, and fairest shine / In all the ways of earth; […] Thee do we make our shrine, whose light doth glow / E’en through the hollow of our fearful night, / To bring us comfort of the light of thee.
Sophocles, Plato, Socrates, / Gentlemen, / Pythagoras, Thucydides, / Herodotus, and Homer, – yea, / Clement, Augustin, Origen, / Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day, / Gentlemen. […] 62 brightlier] brightliest ms
He whose torch of wisdom now burned brightliest at Athens had returned from exile, and his distracted nation enjoyed again some measure of freedom.
Meantime we waited, watching, and perceived / The wondrous rainbow from our common sun / Of intellect shine brightliest on the cloud / Of man’s mistaken hope; for what had we, / Who taught in terms of life and death, to set / Against this gleaming immortality?
One of the brightliest gifted among University students, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru was perhaps never a candidate for a temporary munsiffship or the post of subregistrar on probation or an officiating vacancy under a village dominie.
You can look down into the Canyon [from the Rim] and everybody sees this rock, it’s so bright. […] The Hakatai shale. […] If you go out there to the Rim, you will see that color-wise it overpowers the Redwall by far, it overpowers the Supai, it overpowers the Hermit shale — which are all the real red units. The Dox sandstone is a beautiful red, too, but the Hakatai is orange. It is the brightliest-colored rock in the Canyon.
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