While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
The dream came to him this morning when he had played himself to sleep with Schumann's Carnival; having chosen this piece because his brain was burdened with many thoughts and fancies which, better than any other, it would enable him to work off; and as he tells this, he enlarges on the faculty of music to register, as well as express, every passing emotion of the human soul.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Now they begin to elongate somewhat and the end enlarges as shown in the larger button in the figure.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson