In moments of spiritual exaltation he is filled with apocalyptic rapture at the vision of an eternal world.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And, like the master, he invoked the apocalyptic power of the religious and poetic imagination to fortify the hesitating conclusions of the reason.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Crimson lava-flood and burning hail, blackened heaven and rocking earth, roaring sea and clamouring volcano, represented an apocalyptic vision of Divine wrath, but probably no survivor remained to record the actual sight of the unprecedented phenomenon, transcending every terrestrial convulsion recorded in the chronicles of scientists.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings