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Three months had gone by; the fine season was past; the winds were becoming violent and contrary; the vessels come from Treguier with the constable to join the fleet had suffered much on the passage; and deliberations were recommencing touching the opportuneness, and even the feasibility, of the expedition thus thrown back. "If anybody goes to England, I will," said the king. But nobody went.
You see" he added, sorely against his will, yet compelled, by the need of protecting her from shock "the opportuneness of the murder. Their relations had been very bad for some time." "Opportuneness?" She just breathed it. He put out his hand again, and took hers. "You know Faversham has enemies?" She nodded. "I've been one myself," he said frankly. "I believe you knew it.
Here there is no more allowance necessary, except in the first case for imperfection of accomplishment, in the second for shortness of life and comparative narrowness of range. The quality and opportuneness of poetry are in each case undeniable. Since the deaths of Herrick and Vaughan, England had not seen any one who had the finer lyrical gifts of the poet as Blake had them.
"No, no, no! A hawker's opportuneness; that describes it. These fellows would make death itself a vulgarity." "You've no faith in their " "Not a tittle. Heaven forfend! A sheet and a turnip are poetry to their manifestations. It's as crude and sour soil for us to work on as any I know. We'll cart it wholesale." "I take you excuse my saying so for a supremely sceptical man." "As to what?"
Lord Morley has observed that the force of speculative literature always hangs on practical opportuneness, and this remark is illustrated by the rationalistic literature of the seventies. It was a time of hope and fear, of progress and danger.
"Always say a kind word if you can," says Helps, "if only that it may come in perhaps with a singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles." And there is one tiny little suggestion I would make to you, so small it will not fit on to any of my larger headings.
For the two Halifax ships which helped to make this most welcome reinforcement, the Admiral was indebted to the diligence of the officer there commanding, who hurried them away as soon as he learned of d'Estaing's appearance on the coast. The opportuneness of their arrival attracted notice.
Sanchez has written a dissertation on the penal cases incident to marriage; he has even argued on the illegitimacy and the opportuneness of each form of indulgence; he has outlined all the duties, moral, religious and corporeal, of the married couple; in short his work would form twelve volumes in octavo if the huge folio entitled De Matrimonio were thus represented.
For many years past he had been master of Latin and rhetoric in the Institute, which noble profession had supplied him with a large fund of quotations from Horace and of florid metaphors, which he employed with wit and opportuneness.
Having said these words, the old king entered the apartments of Gandhari. Unto that husband of hers who resembled a second Lord of all creatures, while resting on a seat, Gandhari of righteous conduct, conversant with the opportuneness of everything, said these words, the hour being suited to them, "Thou hast obtained the permission of that great Rishi, viz., Vyasa himself.
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