Although Raleigh's attempts to establish a colony in Virginia thus proved futile and catastrophic (3:282), Virginia with its rich and unspoiled resources, projected through a
paradisical vision, continued to mystify and lure the enterprising and commercially committed merchants of London.
This is the reason of the important role played by the
paradisical metaphors and motifs that will be analyzed in the following discussions.
She went on to explain that 'it is not against strong, persevering passions but romantic wavering feelings that I wish to guard the female heart by exercising the understanding: for these
paradisical reveries are oftener the effect of idleness than of a lively fancy'.
The answer to all of the above would be a resounding "yes" if you were looking at a
paradisical haven through the eyes of Wildworks theatre director Bill Mitchell and his team of creative creators.
Rikizo describes the first time he went to the island as feeling that it was like a
paradisical place--he was aware of the intense colours of the sea and the sky, of the bird-calls that laced in and out of the fabric of quietness.
Since all reports confirm its "Heaven on Earth" quality and since we are told that it is the pure of heart who see God, it may be man's self-induced blindness, caused by sin, that has blinded him to the
paradisical light of Laus.
What makes a building beautiful, or pleasurable or
paradisical? In this new series, the popular architectural historian aims to find out.
Miranda indicates, while in "Alocucion a la poesia" is based on the myth of the
paradisical Latin American garden, with "Silva a la agricultura de la zona torrida" situates on the map of Latin American identity that of agricultural paradise (162-166).
Hou always posits some sort of Eden for his characters--a place to remember or long for; that Japan, once Taiwan's brutal colonizer, provides the
paradisical hiatus here, compounds the film's sense of history absented.
Whilst I was systematically collecting the itukutuku ('tellings') of the Serean clans, the eldest man of the Nacaubouta clan, and official herald of Serea, had instructed me to write down in my notes that their ancestor Leka was born in
paradisical Nakauvadra before his brother Rorogaca, the ancestor of the Waikalou chiefs.
As she writes concerning the assurance of God's protection of Sophia's heirs (the "
Paradisical Planters") from "the wild and bruitish sort of Men" during this final age: "destroying of any be strange work, and also disagreeable to the Nature of Love ...
His naked nubilities, like those of the Elder Cranach, celebrate
paradisical innocence.
the episode follows the canonical pattern of such [allegorical] narratives: (1) a series of moral and spiritual failures and a consequent descent into hellish vice and corruption, mediated by a spurious model of askesis; (2) an intermediate purgative period in which the hero learns to recognize and combat external hardships and enemies; (3) entrance into a
paradisical state (here represented by Logistilla's palace and her teachings) where the hero is apparently confirmed in virtuous self-knowledge and spiritual well-being.
Paradoxically, an important part of Kaaterskill Falls' role as a contested site lies in its depiction as an idyllic and, at times, almost
paradisical place.
