He still had his glorious sense of words drawn from the special reservoir from which Lincoln also drew, fed by Shakespeare and thoseTudor critics who wrote the first Prayer Book of Edward VI and their Jacobean successors who translated the Bible.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of  Winston Churchill. Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known.

What a glorious morning is this.

-Adams, Samuel
  On hearing gunfire at Lexington,19  Apr. Quoted in J K Hosmer Samuel  Adams (1886), ch.19.

Glorious things are spoken of thee,O city of God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 87:3.

You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy.O glorious to be a human boy!† O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Rev Mr Chadband. Bleak House, ch.19.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'Air and  Angels', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

To be a King and towear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

-Elizabeth I
  Address to parliament. Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation1300^1648 (2nd edn,1968), p.134.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

-Ferber, Edna
  Cimarron, ch.23.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So follow me, follow, Down to the hollow, And there let us wallow In glorious mud.

-Flanagan, Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop
  'The Hippopotamus'.

Theyare our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  On railway termini. Howards End, ch.2.

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Pirate King's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now fora long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and thethings that were glorious had no gloryand the sacrifices were like the stock-yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.27.

Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  Radio broadcast, 5 Jun, quoted in The Listener,13 Jun.

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

-Smart, Christopher
  A Song to David, stanza 85.

   One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe'  d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe'  d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet 75.

Oh, my Gracious,Glorious,Galumphing Goodness!

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  MrWigg. Mary Poppins, ch.3.