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One, the great poet, and one, the humble schoolboy, they both had pity on the Queen of Carthage, they would have liked to save her, or at any rate to mitigate her sadness, to alter a little the callousness of AEneas and the harshness of the Fates. But think of it! Love is a divine sickness, a chastisement sent by the gods.
As to the 'accidents of words, which are measure, sound, and elevation of accent, and the sweetness and harshness of them, even here the new science suggests a new rule, which is not without a remarkable relation to that 'particular method of tradition, which the author tells us in another place, some parts of his new science required.
May I not linger at your side long enough to ask you one question, you severe yet ardently beloved maiden?" "Certainly not," replied Barbara with repellent harshness. "I never gave you a right to speak to me of love; but, above all, I shall not seek the sharer of a game of question and answer in the street."
And though Jessie was with him for all time now, he greedily hugged to himself these hours alone with her, when there was nothing but the fair blue sky and waving grass, the hills and valleys, to witness his happiness, none of the harshness of life to obtrude upon his perfect joy; nothing, not even the merest duties of daily life, to mar the delicious companionship which his wife's long-desired presence afforded him.
'For the which thou hadst a noble opportunity unsought, raising the hue and cry upon him within his enemy's walls! 'I would to God, my lord, it had not fallen to me. 'Thinking better of it, therefore, and repenting of thy harshness, thou didst seek his chamber in the night to tell him so? I would fain know how a maiden reasoneth with herself when she doth such things. 'Not so, my lord.
He had accepted that as he accepted toil, hunger and exile, as things to be redeemed by their end. But if it should be true! If this grossness and harshness should, after all, be his real life! Bill saw the agony that broke loose within his victim, and bent his head above his work to hide a smile. "Ah!"
The emigrants were making merry daily, from early morning until nine or ten of evenings; there were few moments when from their part of the ship some crude music was not rising. Concertinas, mouth-organs, a badly-mastered violin gave forth their notes from time to time, their harshness softened by the mingling of the waves' lap on the vessel's sides.
What is the use of a man winning victories if he cannot lend a helping hand to his friends!" The next day they went down to Versailles, where Marshal Saxe presented them to the king in a private audience. Louis received them graciously. "I fear, countess, that you and your husband have been treated with some harshness; but our royal ear was deceived by one in whom we had confidence.
It must have been the pride and harshness that stung him! I was very sorry for him, though I could not think about it, of course, still less speak; but that was the beginning of my hating myself, and I have hated myself more and more ever since I have taken to write all this down, and seen how hard and foolish I was, how very much the worst of the three.
Take no notice at all of her murmurs, of her cries, of her sufferings; nature has ordained her for your use, that she may bear everything children, griefs, blows and pains from man. Don't accuse yourself of harshness. In the codes of all the nations which are called civilized, man has written the laws which govern the destiny of women in these cruel terms: Vae victis! Woe to the conquered!
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