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And no one can gainsay that this mental condition is intimately connected with our highest feelings and leads directly into them. The fault with Emerson is that he stops in the ante-chamber of poetry. He is content if he has brought us to the hypnotic point. His prologue and overture are excellent, but where is the argument? Where is the substantial artistic content that shall feed our souls?
"O no," said Henrietta, with a certain mental reservation that she would make her not mind it, or at any rate not gainsay it.
But kind indeed hast thou been to me ere now: therefore I pray thee take it not amiss if I call to thy mind the oath which thou swearedst on the Holy Boar last Yule, that thou wouldst not gainsay the prayer of any man if thou couldest perform it; therefore I bid thee naysay not mine: and that is, that thou wilt ask me no more about this matter, but wilt suffer me to fare afield like any swain of the Dale, and to deal so with my folk that they shall not hinder me.
"Mayhap," said Captain Baulk, "I'd not gainsay it for I trust no one o' them; but he chose to go with his weather eye shut rather than take precaution 'gainst the squall. So they had it out all by their selves, and none of us a whit the wiser, saving young Poole, who had guessed somewhat was amiss and followed his master." "What then? Speak quickly! Was Mr. Rivers wounded?" "Not he!
When first the truth reaches the mind that there is "no matter" that matter cannot feel, etc., it bursts like a flood of light upon the unfettered mind and appears a fact so overwhelmingly great, so vast and so true, that to gainsay it would be to acknowledge ignorance of its teaching; to admit intellectual shortsightedness. At first sight it would indeed appear so!
Thou who canst lift up a king's man by the shoulders and plant him like a rush in the miry pool!" At this Humphrey smiled slightly himself. "Well, lad," he said presently, "I will not gainsay thee. Go we to Lincoln, and may good come of it. But we stay not long?" "Why, that," answered Hugo, "is what no man can tell. We must be cautious." "Ay, lad," assented Humphrey, approvingly.
I am not all of the tame breed of you Iceland folk other and quicker blood runs in my veins; nor will I be sold in marriage to a dotard as a mare is sold at a market. I have answered." "Fool! think again, for I go not back upon my word. Wed Atli or die by thy own hand, if thou wilt there I will not gainsay thee; or, if thou fearest this, then anon in the Doom-ring."
She released it from its envelope, smelt it, and laid it down comfortably in front of the Sevres china inkstand. All the permanent furniture of the writing-table was of Sevres china. Bessie thought it grotesque, and had no notion of the value of it. "The big basket may be put aside?" suggested Mrs. Betts, and her young lady did not gainsay her.
Seth had been hardly human if the thought of forgetting Celia and her indifference in Cyclona's arms had not more than once presented itself. It presented itself now with the strength of strong winds. Without home or kindred, without tie or connection, she was a flower in his pathway. He had only to reach out and pluck her and wear her on his heart. There were none to gainsay him.
"Alas! is a prison your dwelling? a prison guarded by one of the most sordid of men, but not a greater wretch than his employer!" "This house is mine," said Amy "mine while I choose to inhabit it. If it is my pleasure to live in seclusion, who shall gainsay me?"
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