How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life, All sweet sensations, all ennobling thoughts, All adoration of the God in nature, All lovely and all honourable things, Whatever makes this mortal spirit feel The joy and greatness of its future being?
Despite all the adoration she has received, Kirsten was not an overnight sensation at the library.
She can be quite grand - she called Terry Johnson's Carry On drama, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick, 'my play' and says of a forthcoming Variety Club lunch in her honour, 'All this adoration, all these accolades'.
But for all the adoration bestowed on Mr. Chang over the last two and a half years, it's only over the last one and a half months, at Momofuku Ssam Bar, that he has really hit his stride, fashioning a nearly full-fledged restaurant in near-perfect sync with the times.
I just hope that amid all the adoration the very legitimate echoes of his critics aren't drowned out.
Americans love puppies, and many of us agree with the late Charles M. Schulz's sentiments: "Happiness is a warm puppy". But despite all the adoration, puppies (and their mothers) continue to suffer in puppy mills.
"[W]hen you're a celebrity," said writer A.J. Jacobs, "anything that emerges from your mouth that vaguely resembles a joke is cause for gut-busting laughter from everyone within earshot". With all that adoration it's only natural to question whether you really deserve all the attention.
And it was neither a "You're fired" judgment or all-out adoration that went into each of the resulting portraits, although he was often blunt about his reservations.
He is embracing a neo-Soviet cult of personality that has transformed from publicity stunts showing off his physique and prowess to all-out adoration intent on proving that no other leader is fit to run Russia.
Martin not only returned to all-out adoration, he seemed to return to the player the Nets thought they were getting when they drafted him with the No. 1 pick as the consensus college player of the year.
The Sri Lankan art-pop-rapper M.I.A. already had all the hipster adoration she could ever want for her song "Paper Planes," which compares international drug dealing to selling records, and it turns gunshots and a ringing cash register into hooks.
