The Sacred FountMethuen & Company, 1901 - 316 من الصفحات |
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admit afresh already amused answer appeared asked beauty believe caught cere charm clever companion confess conscious course curiosity daresay dear doubtless Dreuil everything exactly eyes face fact fairly fear feel felt Ford Obert gave gether Gilbert Long give gone Grace Brissenden Guy Brissenden hadn't hand handsome happened happy hour humble pie idea impression instant interest knew Lady John laughed least less light Long's looked Lord Lutley matter mean ment mind minute moreover morning naturally Newmarch Paddington panion perhaps person poor Briss possible present prodigious question quired recognise remember replied sacred fount scarce seemed seen sense Server simply smiled speak spite spoke stared stood straight strikes struck suddenly sure talk tell there's thing thought tically tion told took truth turned waited watched wife wish woman wonder word
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الصفحة 129 - ... 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. In his hand he holds an object that strikes the spectator at first simply as some obscure, some ambiguous work of art, but that on a second view becomes a representation of a human face, modelled and coloured, in wax, in enamelled metal, in some substance not human. The object...
الصفحة 156 - ... uninvited reporter in whose face a door is closed. I said to myself during dinner that these were scenes in which a transcendent intelligence had after all no application, and that, in short, any preposterous acuteness might easily suffer among them such a loss of dignity as overtakes the newspaperman kicked out. We existed, all of us together, to be handsome and happy, to be really what we looked...
الصفحة 173 - 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 157 - We existed, all of us together, to be handsome and happy, to be really what we looked — since we looked tremendously well; to be that and neither more nor less, so not discrediting by musty secrets and aggressive doubts our high privilege of harmony and taste.
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 29 - But the sacred fount is like the greedy man's description of the turkey as an 'awkward' dinner dish. It may be sometimes too much for a single share, but it's not enough to go round
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.
الصفحة 183 - Mrs. Brissenden and 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 bright and insolent in their prior state, people in whom this state was to have been respected as a surface without a scratch is respected, be made to...
الصفحة 298 - I'm not sure to you; people have such a notion of what you embroider on things that they're rather afraid to commit themselves or to lead you on.