The Sacred FountMethuen & Company, 1901 - 316 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 214 - I struck myself as knowing again the joy of the intellectual mastery of things unamenable, that joy of determining, almost of creating results, which I have already mentioned as an exhilaration attached to some of my plunges of insight.
الصفحة 129 - I moved in a world in which the strange "came true." It was the coming true that was the proof of the enchantment, which, moreover, was naturally never so great as when such coming was, to such a degree and by the most romantic stroke of all, the fruit of one's own wizardry. I was positively — so had the wheel revolved — proud of my work. I had thought it all out, and to have thought it was, wonderfully, to have brought it.
الصفحة 55 - The figure represented is a young man in black — a quaint, tight black dress, fashioned in years long past; with a pale, lean, livid face and a stare, from eyes without eyebrows, like that of some whitened old-world clown.
الصفحة 56 - Isn't it much rather the Mask of Life? It's the man's own face that's Death, the other one, blooming and beautiful." "Ah. but with an awful grimace!" Mrs. Server broke in. "The other one, blooming and beautiful," I repeated, "is Life, and he's going to put it on: unless indeed he has just taken it off.
الصفحة 184 - Long had been hitherto magnificently without it, and I was responsible perhaps for having, in a mood practically much stupider than the stupidest of theirs, put them gratuitously and helplessly on it. To be without it was the most consistent, the most successful, because the most amiable form of selfishness; and why should people admirably equipped for remaining so...
الصفحة 167 - I most made out was the beauty and the terror of conditions so highly organised that under their rule her small lonely fight with disintegration could go on without the betrayal of a gasp or a shriek...
الصفحة 174 - I suddenly found myself thinking with a kind of horror of any accident by which I might have to expose to the world, to defend against the world, to share with the world, that now so complex tangle of hypotheses that I have had for convenience to speak of as my theory.
الصفحة 161 - The state of my conscience was that I knew too much — that no one had really any business to know what I knew.
الصفحة 80 - One of them always gets more out of it than the other. One of them — you know the saying — gives the lips, the other gives the cheek." "It's the deepest of all truths. Yet the cheek profits too," I more prudently argued. "It profits most. It takes and keeps and uses all the lips give. The cheek, accordingly," she continued to point out, "is Mr.
الصفحة 130 - We were in a beautiful old picture, we were in a beautiful old tale, and it wouldn't be the fault of Newmarch if some other green carrefour, not far off, didn't balance with this one and offer the alternative of niches, in the greenness, occupied by weather-stained statues on florid pedestals.