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The head, which lay high but inert upon the pillow, was surrounded with the grey hairs of age, and the eyes, which seemed to stare into ours, were glassy with reflected light and not with inward intelligence. This glassiness told the tale of the room's grim silence.
He was frightened at himself, even more than at the dead man, or his deed. Leaning back on his hands, the man he had killed at his feet, those instant questions which oppress us all in the rare moments when we stand still and are compelled by the shock of circumstance to look inward on ourselves, drummed at his brain. What was he? where was he? why was he?
How can we make bricks without straw; or build without cement? We learn all things indeed by occasion of experience; but the very facts so learned force us inward on the antecedents, that must be presupposed in order to render experience itself possible. The term, Philosophy, defines itself as an affectionate seeking after the truth; but Truth is the correlative of Being.
Her life should be the outspoken language of her mind, the eloquent poem of her soul speaking in rhythmic beauties the intrinsic merit of inward purity. Purity antecedes all spiritual attainments and progress.
I could double, yea ten times double the number of these arguments against you, but I will pass from this to the second thing. 'The righteousness you have described, is not the true gospel inward holiness.
But, as the student advanced along the path, his air was not that of one whose deep inward thoughts withdrew his attention from all outward objects. He rather resembled the hunter, on the watch for his game; and, while he was yet at a distance from Ellen, a wandering gust of wind waved her white garment, and betrayed her. "It is as I feared," said Fanshawe to himself.
Oh, I cannot bear it!" she repeated over and over. Then stung to openness by the lash of the constant inward cry "I love him! Oh, I love him! Oh, I cannot bear it!" she moaned yet again. She rocked to and fro upon her knees, and hid her face in her hands to shut out the glory of beauty and calm that lay before and around her. "I never thought that love would be like this.
Afterwards she never thought of it but with a shudder, marvelling how she had been able to endure all and live. At last the inward suffering began to be outwardly written on her face. Some people said Lyle Derwent first that Miss Rothesay did not look so well as she used to do. But indeed it was no wonder, she was so engrossed in her painting, and worked far too much for her strength.
When Emily ceased, it was with an inward fervour of gratitude to the master and the instrument, To know that, was to have caught once more the point of view from which life had meaning. Now let them chatter and mop and mow; the echo of that music still lived around. Hood had not returned when they sat down to tea.
But besides the prospect which opened beneath my feet, another also opened to my inward sight, a heavenly vision, on which were written, in letters large as Hope could make them, these four words, LIBERTY, GENIUS, LOVE, VIRTUE; which have since faded into the light of common day, or mock my idle gaze. "The beautiful is vanished, and returns not."
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