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The sight of it, unimpaired, within its screen of grass and nettles, lit in his soul a spark of the old fire. Surely his plan should be to move onward through good and ill to avoid morbid sorrow even though he did see uglinesses in the world? Bene agere et loetari to do good cheerfully which he had heard to be the philosophy of one Spinoza, might be his own even now.
She stopped with a hesitating, interrogative air. No one talked less scandal, no one put the uglinesses of life away from her with a hastier hand than Lady Winterbourne. She was one of the most consistent of moral epicures. "Yes, extremely disagreeable," said Miss Raeburn, sitting bolt upright. "The man has no principles never had any, since he was a child in petticoats.
Why has this land no story-tellers like those who have made Massachusetts and New Hampshire illustrious?" These and many other speculations buzzed in my brain. Each moment was a revelation of new uglinesses as well as of remembered beauties. At four o'clock of a wet morning I arrived at Charles City, from which I was to take "the spur" for Osage.
He was a romantic some would have said a sentimental person, with a poet always in his pocket, and a hunger for all that might shield him from the worst uglinesses of life, and the worst despairs of thought; an optimist, and, in his own sense, Christian.
I believe in the scheme, in the Project of all things, in the significance of myself and all life, and that my defects and uglinesses and failures, just as much as my powers and successes, are things that are necessary and important and contributory in that scheme, that scheme which passes my understanding and that no thwarting of my conception, not even the cruelty of nature, now defeats or can defeat my faith, however much it perplexes my mind.
Wells feel this passionate desire, if all the failures and uglinesses of life are "necessary and important"? How, on this assumption, are existing social ills to be remedied nay, why should they be remedied, why should they be stigmatised as ills, seeing that "everything is right"? Let Mr.
Simultaneously the shutter of perceptions snapped, photographing permanently upon the super-sensitized film of conscious memory the glimpsed vista of a grim, mean street whose repellent uglinesses grinned through the boding twilight like lineaments of some monstrous mask of evil.
She found herself leaning over and parting her porch-vines, to get a glimpse of the little house next door. She had always loathed that little house with its barefaced poverties and uglinesses, and it had been a great relief to her to have it stand vacant in past years. She had left it vacant when she started upon her last globe-trotting.
And because you'd make me keenly alive again to all sorts of things that I see now don't matter things that have lost some of their power to trouble me, but that I should feel for you. 'What sort of 'Oh, oddities, uglinesses things that abound, I'm told, at all men's meetings, and that yet, somehow, we'd like to eliminate from women's quite on the old angel theory. No, I won't take you!
We passed, too, through Assyrian saloons and Egyptian saloons, all full of monstrosities and horrible uglinesses, especially the Egyptian, and all the innumerable relics that I saw of them in these saloons, and among the mummies, instead of bringing me closer to them, removed me farther and farther; there being no common ground of sympathy between them and us.
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