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Updated: June 2, 2025
There was in the apartment that air which bespeaks the struggle for appearances, that struggle familiar to those of limited income and vain aspirings, who want the taste which smooths all inequalities and gives a smile to home; that taste which affection seems to prompt, if not to create, which shows itself in a thousand nameless, costless trifles, each a grace.
The burning desires I have known the resplendent visions I have nursed the sublime aspirings that have lifted me so often from sense and clay these tell me, that, whether for good or ill I am the thing of an Immortality, and the creature of a God!
Surely, then, we can pardon something to those superstitious ages, perhaps even the mysticism of the scholastic philosophy, since, after all, we can find no harm in it, only the mistaking of the possible for the real, and the high aspirings of the human mind after a long-sought and unknown somewhat.
Don Luis had never known love; not even the fleeting fancy, much less the actual passion, of the sensualist, or the spiritual aspirings of true affection. Of the last, in fact, he was utterly incapable. No feeling, with him, was of an evanescent nature: under the cold austerity of the ordinary man, lay coals of living fire.
A King's Accession is always a hopeful phenomenon to the public; more especially a young King's, who has been talked of for his talents and aspirings, for his sufferings, were it nothing more, and whose ANTI-MACHIAVEL is understood to be in the press. Vaguely everywhere there has a notion gone abroad that this young King will prove considerable.
And yet he has almost lost the capacity for pleasures apart from those of a wolfish hunger for knowledge; and he despises his baser aims and his extravagant speeches. Could life only be begun anew with temperate hopes and sane aspirings! But he has given his pledges and will abide by them; he must submit to be hunted by the gods to the end.
Possessed by these thoughts, a new view of human affairs succeeded to my old aspirings; the moment a man feels that an object has ceased to charm, he reconciles himself by reasonings to his loss. 'Why, said I; 'why flatter myself that I can serve that I can enlighten mankind? Are we fully sure that individual wisdom has ever, in reality, done so?
It should fill us with sweet thoughts of God, with worshipful emotions, with reverent aspirings. The love of Beauty we should cultivate within us as a gift of the good Father, and a shrine at which we may worship him acceptably. He has not given us this delicate sense of Beauty to be neglected. It is our duty to preserve it well and cultivate it diligently.
How vain to discuss questions of social order or national freedom with the cordoned and glittering bands who saw monarchy and kingdoms among the prizes of their ambition! And even I, who had few ambitious hopes, how the ardor that once stimulated me and led me to the soldier's life, how had it given way to the mere conventional aspirings of a class!
With Constance with the proud thoughts that belonged to her the aspirings after earthly honours were linked, and with her were broken. He felt his old philosophy the love of ease, the profound contempt for fame, close, like the deep waters over those glittering hosts for whose passage they had been severed for a moment whelming the crested and gorgeous visions for ever beneath the wave!
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