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Have you come full of envy, and dejected because nothing is sent you from home; and while the discussion is going on, do you sit brooding on nothing but how your father or your brother are disposed towards you: "What are they saying about me there? at this moment they imagine I am making progress and saying, He will return perfectly omniscient!
Far along in the horizon, they discern mild skies and halcyon seas, while fogs and darkness and mists blind other sons of humanity from beholding all this bright vision. It was not so that we accomplished our last great victory, by simply brooding over a glorious Whig future.
With the disappointment of another morning dawning and still no sign of the longed-for ice, Charley, after making his declaration of discouragement and hopelessness to Toby, became quiet and morose. He had no inclination to leave the tent and the fire, and he spent his time sitting under the shelter and brooding over his troubles. Toby, no less anxious, made frequent journeys along the shore.
His aristocracy does not sit in a corner, deedless and meritless, brooding over a transmitted name and sucking the orange of empty self-conceit: it is the aristocracy of achievement and of nature the solid superiority of having done the brightest and best deeds that could be done in his time and of being the greatest man of his generation.
Her griefs seemed lighter when they were shared with others, even in spirit. There was in her nature a childish strain that craved sympathy and comforting. She had never known or if so it was only in a dim and dreamlike past the tender, brooding care that was her conception of a mother's love. Mrs.
But the power which appeals to some of us is struggling and brooding tragically, as in Michelangelo and Beethoven; while the power which straightway subdues certain others is easy, temperate, and radiant, as in Titian and Mozart.
Peak sat still, with an air of anxious brooding. 'You don't think she will refuse, Godwin? fell from her presently. His hand closed on the letter. 'Why? Well, in that case I should go to London and find some occupation as soon as possible. You could still let me have the same money as before? 'Yes. It was said absently, and did not satisfy Godwin.
"A descendant yes. I remember now; he died, poor nonno.... The lake pleases you, Mr. Beechtree?" "Indeed, yes. It is very beautiful." Miss Longfellow's fine dark eyes had a momentary flicker of resentment. Most young men looked at her, but Mr. Beechtree at the lake, with his melancholy brooding eyes. Henry liked handsome young women well enough, but he admired scenery more.
And with it the gray-gloomed giant of Wade's mind, the morbid and brooding spell, had gained its long-encroaching ascendancy. He had again found the man to whom he must tell his story. Tragic and irrevocable decree! It was his life that forced him, his crime, his remorse, his agony, his endless striving. How true had been his steps!
And he knew it was his brooding thought, his fierce, hard determination, his intense concentrativeness for so many months, that had been digging that furrow; and it must prove indeed a potent specific of the life-water that would smooth that away, and restore him all the youth and elasticity that he had buried in that profound grave. But why was he so pale?
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