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When the concert was over, and Paganini brought back the instrument, its owner was so delighted with what he had heard that he refused to receive it. "Never will I profane strings which your fingers have touched," he said, "the instrument is now yours." And Paganini used that violin afterwards in all his concerts.
I shall have to say the same thing to five or six other people. I embrace you therefore in a hurry, so as not to lose the post. Give me news of your niece and embrace her for me. G. Sand CCCIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Paris Nohant, 8th March, 1876 You scorn Sedaine, you great profane soul! That is where the doctrine of form destroys your eye!
The story is told from a more joyous point of view from a point of view comparatively humorous and a number of objects and incidents touched with the light of the profane world the vulgar, many-coloured world of actuality, as distinguished from the crepuscular realm of the writer's own reveries are mingled with its course.
You can't ask the profane lady no matter if she is a right-hand business man to come fix pretties. You better write your daughter what I've said, and if you don't mind I'd like to get back to the office." Constantine rose, frowning down at her with an expression that would have frightened a good many women stauncher than Mary Faithful.
He had all a soldier's virtues, the "chevalier without fear and without reproach," but he was glorified by a whole galaxy of excellences which soldiers too often lack. He was pure of speech and of habit, never intemperate, never obscene, never profane, never irreverent. In domestic life he was an absolute model. Lofty command did not make him vain.
It introduces its pretended author, Bishop Turpin, in this manner: "Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims, the friend and secretary of Charles the Great, excellently skilled in sacred and profane literature, of a genius equally adapted to prose and verse, the advocate of the poor, beloved of God in his life and conversation, who often fought the Saracens, hand to hand, by the Emperor's side, he relates the acts of Charles the Great in one book, and flourished under Charles and his son Louis, to the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty."
I went to take it down, and when I had it in my hand I saw that it was covered all over with verses addressed to me, and they were so lovely that I cannot find words to describe them." "Lovely! pshaw! profane scribble I call them. Does not Macrobius say: 'Ignibus iste liber quod ipse ignibus liber! Into the flames with that book if thou wouldst escape the flames thyself!
I think if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture. It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
Which, then, shall I trust the good religious men, or the low, profane, and abject ones?" "Trust in goodness, wherever it be found," answered Gertrude; "but oh, trust all rather than none." "Your world, your religion, draws a closer line. You are a good child, and full of hope and charity," said Mr. Phillips, pressing her arm closely to his side. "I will try and have faith in you.
Keats's "Endymion," it has just as much to do with Greece as it has with "old Tartary the fierce"; no man, whose mind has ever been imbued with the smallest knowledge or feeling of classical poetry or classical history, could have stooped to profane and vulgarise every association in the manner which has been adopted by this "son of promise."
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