The thought recurs to the sublime contrast between the pathetic numerousness of the successors of Aaron, "not suffered to continue by reason of death," and the singleness, the "unsuccessional" identity for ever, of the true Melchizedek, who abides eternally.
"Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews"
Handley C.G. Moule
These upshootings in "Don Juan" irradiate the cantos, giving an attractiveness which draws to them eyes that otherwise would not have known them; and if too pure in their light and too remote to mingle directly with the flare and flash that dazzle without illuminating, silently they shine and steadily, an unconscious heavenly influence, above these coruscations of earthly thoughts,-thoughts telling from their lively numerousness, but neither grand nor deep.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
And this shortness comes of the numerousness of vowels.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert