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The undercurrent of their natures ran in a groove of more than common sympathy; and to an analyst, such as Holbein was, the reflections behind these inscrutable eyes were full of unusual attraction. Myself, I feel convinced, for more than one reason, that it is a work of some years later. But as a consensus of authorities places it during this visit, the picture is noticed here.
His poems are more full of reflections, meditations, and generalizations upon human life than any poet’s since Shakespeare. But then the moment that Shakespeare descended from those heights whether his metaphysical imagination had borne him, he became, not a lyrist, as Tennyson became, but a dramatist.
And suddenly he stopped, stood still and stared with unseeing eyes across the muddy waters of the Thames. He was thinking of the cowled man who had stood behind the curtains in his study of that figure so wildly bizarre that even now he could scarcely believe that he had ever actually seen it. He walked on. Automatically his reflections led him to Mlle.
"And see the witch-fires," as the rosy reflections of our burning logs and lights danced on the whirling snow without. "Is there anything wanting to make us feel as if we had been caught here by some spell, and were to be held by some charm?" "I wish I knew the charm," said Colonel Vorse, by my side, and half under his breath.
Jacques, is there and he will tell you so. Now, on that particular evening, it was last Friday, I had committed the mistake of eating brill, a fish that positively disagrees with me. God grant that the account of the singular dream which ensued may inspire you with some prudent reflections. Be that as it may, this was my dream, in all its extravagance.
Such were the reflections which I made during a moment of anxiety, and which, in a period of quiet, I do not wish to repeat.
Nell and her grandfather ate sparingly, for both were occupied with their own reflections; the other gentlemen, for whose constitutions beer was too weak and tame a liquid, consoled themselves with spirits and tobacco. As they would leave the house very early in the morning, the child was anxious to pay for their entertainment before they retired to bed.
The bed whereon I lay indulging in these uncomfortable reflections was near an open window that looked on to the veranda, through which came an extraordinary sound of groaning and weeping. For a time I could not make out what it was, but at last I got up and, putting my head out of the window, stared about.
'I wonder if Western scientists, patiently enlarging the realms of knowledge for the practical good of mankind, are not more pleasing to God than these idlers who profess religion but concentrate on alms. "My smouldering reflections on social reform were interrupted by the voice of a tall sannyasi who halted before me. "'Sir, he said, 'a saint is calling you. "'Who is he?
Why didn't I boldly open it to Bray myself, and save one thousand four hundred and seventy-five, four, three? These reflections depressed the old usurer so much, as to wring a feeble groan or two from his breast, and cause him to declare, with uplifted hands, that he would die in a workhouse.
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