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Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. -- William Styron
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. -- Martha Beck
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. -- Daniel Boone
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld. -- Ed Markey
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. -- David Brainerd
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. -- Charles Lyell
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God. -- John Jewel
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. -- Henry Williamson
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. -- George Gissing
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. -- Victoria Woodhull
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. -- William Wells Brown
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. -- John James Audubon
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal. -- Witold Gombrowicz
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one -- Thomas Hardy
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. -- Jane Austen
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus. -- Charles Kuralt
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. -- Arthur Rimbaud
When once the Heart is awakened, every single moment 'in-time' is a treasure to beheld -- AainaA-Ridtz
Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening. -- Seneca the Younger
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. -- John Milton
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable. -- Saint Augustine
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. -- Lord Byron
Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld? -- Robert Breault
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing. -- David S.E. Zapanta
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. -- Abraham Cowley
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator. -- Richard Realf
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. -- Hippolyte Taine
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. -- Khaled Hosseini
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? -- Bayard Taylor
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. -- Terry Teachout
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you. -- Charlotte Bronte
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men. -- Solomon
I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great -- Matthew Reilly
TO A CHILD, BEHELD IN SUMMER RAIMENTLittle girl, one lesser garmentwill suffice to clothe your crotch,Hide that undiscovered cavernWhere old Time will wind his watch." -- William Gaddis
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. -- Khalil Gibran
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! -- William Blake
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth. -- Khalil Gibran
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned. -- Francis Asbury
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth. -- Khalil Gibran
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite. -- John Muir
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity. -- Saint Augustine
In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness." -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. -- Joseph Campbell
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld. -- Jane Porter
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him. -- Baal Shem Tov

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