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It is a Maenad in an access of gymnastic energy. Yes, it is gymnastics; it is not grace; it is scarcely alluring. Yet it is a physical triumph. While the spectators are breathless, the fury ceases, the music dies, and the Spaniard sinks into a chair, panting with triumph, and inclines her dark head to the clapping of hands and the bravos.
Even in the conduct of their intrigues we are lost in a murky mistiness. Balzac is at his best when he is arousing the emotions of recognition; and he is at his worst when he sinks to evoking the emotions of surprize.
"Thus have the fairest hopes deceived the eye Of the big-swoln expectants standing by So the proud ship, after a little turn, Sinks in the ocean's arms to find its urn: Thus hath the heir to many thousands born Been in an instant from the mother torn; Even thus thy infant cheek begins to pale, And thy supporters through great losses fail.
So accustomed are the horses to this management, that they keep together in the pasture where they have been left. As the sun sinks behind the hills, they may be seen moving from all points toward the camp, where they surrender themselves to be tied up for the night.
Mortal, behold the toil and boast of years In one brief moment to oblivion hurled. So shall it be, when this vain guilty world Of woe, and sad necessity and tears, Sinks at the awful mandate of its Lord, As erst it rose to being at his word." Lunatic Asylum
The traveller must also pass over many a field of snow not yet melted by the sun, and frequently concealing chasms and masses of lava; and this is attended with danger almost as great. At every footstep the traveller sinks into the snow; and he may thank his lucky stars if the whole rotten surface does not give way.
'Not that I mean that I wish he has never given me any trouble but just look at James Frost, and you would see what I mean! There's energy in him fire independence; you feel there is substance in him, and like him the better for having a will and way of his own. 'So, I think, has Louis; but it is so often thwarted, that it sinks away under the sense of duty and submission.
The sun sinks out of sight, and leaves behind a tinge of purple, of modest gray touched with topaz ah! that is better. I paint and I paint and I paint. Oh, Good Lord, how beautiful it is how beautiful! The sun has disappeared and left behind a soft, luminous, gauzy tint of lemon lemons half-ripe. The light melts and blends into the blue of the night. How beautiful!
This unusual tone from the professor strikes surprise to the soul of Hardinge. He looks at him. But the professor's new humor is short-lived. He sinks upon a chair in a tired sort of way, letting his arms fall over the sides of it. As a type of utter despair he is a distinguished specimen. "Why don't you take her home again, back to the old aunt?" says Hardinge, moved by his misery. "I can't.
He adds another mile to his daily journey: he denies himself some further innocent recreation. The cottages in the open fields are comparatively pleasant to visit, the sweet fresh air carries away effluvia. Those that are so curiously crowded together in the village are sinks of foul smell, and may be of worse places where, if fever come, it takes hold and quits not.
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