One of Mrs. Braddon's guests said to me: "That is the soul of music with all its sense and Earthliness refined away."
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Very rare is such a touch as that of Sir Amadas being unable at the feast to get rid of the memory of the unburied corpse, kept by enemies from the kindly earth that would hide it, and the rites that would help it to peace: still rarer that in Guy of Warwick when the hero, at the height of his fame and in the full enjoyment of his desires, looks from the tower and is struck by the selfishness and Earthliness of his career.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace, Each stain of Earthliness 135 Had passed away, it reassumed Its native dignity, and stood Immortal amid ruin.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.