If genius be desirable at all, it is only of that great and magnanimous kind, which, like the condor of South America, pitches from the summit of Chimborazo, above the clouds, and sustains itself at pleasure in that empyreal region with an energy rather invigorated than weakened by the effort.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
Within and through this empyreal web of light marvellous scenes were simultaneously woven.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
Then let some holy trance convey my thoughts Up to the palace of th' empyreal heaven, That this my life may be as short to me As are the days of sweet Zenocrate.
"Tamburlaine the Great, Part II."
Christopher Marlowe