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Elise, pretty as a flower, with her long eyelashes drooped. At last, making up his mind: "M. Joyeuse," said he thickly, "I have a very serious communication to make to you." M. Joyeuse expresses astonishment. "A communication? Ah, mon Dieu, you alarm me!" And lowering his voice: "Are the girls in the way?" "No. Bonne Maman knows what I mean. Mlle. Elise also must have some suspicion of it.
Ballantree MacDonald," the detestable girl went on, pushing into the room without asking permission. "She's going to 'open, as the paper expresses it, in a new play called 'The Nelly Affair, on Monday night at the Lyceum Theatre. Next Monday! Nearly a week from now! How can I wait what shall I do till then?" It was to Somerled that she appealed.
For on the death of a monarch no doubt exists as to who shall succeed him, and there is no need of an election or other procedure. Englishmen say, "The King is dead, Long live the King." This expresses the point.
Upon this occasion I may cite the authority of an elegant writer, who expresses himself in the following manner. "As the fancy delights in every thing that is great, strange, or beautiful, and is still more pleased the more it finds of these perfections in the same object, so it is capable of receiving a new satisfaction by the assistance of another sense.
She is the woman of whom the beloved disciple speaks when he says: "And a great wonder appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."* This certainly expresses the highest glory and splendor imaginable.
Against Russia and France we fight, as the poet expresses it, 'with steel and bronze, and conclude a peace some time or other. But against England we wage war with the greatest bitterness and such an awful rage, as only an entire and great people in their holy wrath can feel. The words of Lissauer's 'Hymn of Hate' were spoken out of the innermost depths of every German soul.
In such a reckless and thoughtless differentiation between the "bad" and the "good" feeble-minded, we find new evidence of the conventional middle-class bias that also finds expression among some of the eugenists. We do not object to feeble-mindedness simply because it leads to immorality and criminality; nor can we approve of it when it expresses itself in docility, submissiveness and obedience.
Similarly John, who wrote his gospel for Gentile readers, could not introduce Jesus to them as the Messiah, and catch their interest; he took an idea, as common in the thought of that day as Evolution is in our own the Logos or Word, in whom God expresses Himself and through whom He acts upon the world and used that as a point of contact with the minds of his readers.
Hanslick, music, being an art isolated from objective nature, can never be anything but music. Whatever it expresses can only be stated in terms of music; it can never present a definite human "feeling." The essence of music is movement, and it can represent certain dynamic ideas. It can also by analogy suggest in the hearer the ideas of pleasing, soft, violent, elegant, and the like.
It is Giovanni Morelli who, in tracing the gradual descent from his recovered treasure, the Venus of Giorgione in the Dresden Gallery, through the various Venuses of Titian down to those of the latest manner, so finely expresses the essential difference between Giorgione's divinity and her sister in the Tribuna.
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