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I heard of the Count of Rouen and the Normans, as a prince of small domain, with a measureless spirit, a lover of letters, and a captain in war. I came to thy duchy, I noted its subjects and its prince, and the words of Themistocles rang in my ear: 'I cannot play the lute, but I can make a small state great. I felt an interest in thy strenuous and troubled career.
Then a cry rose up from all nature, as though every star in heaven, every wave of ocean, every leaf of the forest, every blade in the meadow, every rock on the shore and every grain of sand in the measureless desert had found a voice; and this universal wail of "Woe, woe!" was drowned by rolling thunder such as the ear of man had never heard, and no mortal creature could hear and live.
Unbroken repose, unlimited growth, inexhaustible life, measureless force, unsearchable beauty who shall feel these things and not know that there are no words for them! And yet in Arden they are part of every man's life! And all the time Rosalind sat weaving her wild flowers into a loose wreath.
Especially was I struck with his morbid vanity, and his readiness to impute low motives to others. This unpleasant view of his character a character in many respects so admirable for its generosity and refinement was deepened as he went on, instead of awaiting my reply to his question. "For a wrong so measureless, you will naturally ask what measureless revenge I sought."
And amidst that sleeping stillness, smeared hastily upon the board, a little askew and crumpled, but quite distinct beneath that cool meteoric glare, preposterous and appalling, the measureless evil of that word Section 2 I awoke in that state of equanimity that so often follows an emotional drenching. It was late, and my mother was beside my bed. She had some breakfast for me on a battered tray.
Girolamo gave a great and bitter cry, "My son!" folding his arms about the younger man in measureless grief and compassion. And when they could trust their footsteps they went desolately into the house together. "Nay," Girolamo had answered to every argument.
“He whose powers were measureless, being thus requested by the great sages, whose thoughts were profound, saluted them all with reverence and gave them a comprehensive answer, saying: Be it heard!
Evangeline I shall not miss Though we wander the dim starry sheen, On opposite sides of rivers so vast That islands of worlds intervene. But what is there in space? There is the great ceaseless force of gravitation. Though the weakest of natural forces, yet when displayed in world-masses its might is measureless by man's arithmetic.
If Satan had not tempted me with that face of yours, and those cursed coquetries, I should have He turned to Fanny then. "But never mind, darling, wife!" At these words there arose from Bathsheba's lips a long, low cry of measureless despair and indignation, such a wail of anguish as had never before been heard within those old-inhabited walls. It was the product* of her union with Troy.
But her face, soft though it be in repose, is not that of a weak woman; it is that of one who, thinking she knows what should be her duty, will be faithful to it; and it is also the face of a woman reserved in the expression of her feelings. Senator Burton cannot make up his mind whether Nancy realises Gerald's measureless, generous devotion.
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