Sentence:  Soothing's various systems were tried, and her amanuensis (he who pens this, by their desire) laid her strange malady before your august body: and then it was, the light of your penetration <WSD>rapturized</WSD> the world by proclaiming, that her wings, instead of those her fears imagined, were long enough for her intended flight ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To put in a state of rapture.