And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high.
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. [ Beattie ]

How the wit brightens! how the style refines! [ Pope ]

'Tis good nature only wins the heart;
It moulds the body to an easy grace
And brightens every feature of the face;
It smoothes the unpolish'd tongue with eloquence
And adds persuasion to the finest sense. [ Stillingfleet ]

Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. [ Carlyle ]

Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]

Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]