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Taj el Mulouk was pleased with his verses and wondered at his eloquence and the excellence of his recitation, saying, 'Indeed thou hast done away from me somewhat of my concern. Then said the Vizier, 'Of a truth there occurred to those of times past what astounds those who hear it. 'If thou canst recall any fine verse of this kind, quoth the prince, 'I prithee let us hear it and keep the talk in vogue. So the Vizier chanted the following verses: Methought thy favours might be bought and thou to give consent To union won by gifts of gold and grace and blandishment: And eke, for ignorance, I deemed thy love an easy thing, Thy love in which the noblest souls for languor are forspent; Until I saw thee choose one out and gratify that one With sweet and subtle favours.
"Ah! the present would be adequate, it would be fascination, if I always had such a companion as Lady Montfort," said Endymion, shaking his head. "What surprises me most, what indeed astounds me, is that Myra should join in this counsel Myra, who knows all, and who has felt it perhaps deeper even than I did. But I will not obtrude these thoughts on you, best and dearest of friends.
"What perhaps astounds me still more," said Durtal, "is the kind of obedience exacted of them. How can a creature endowed with free will annihilate herself to such an extent?" "Oh," said the abbé, "the obedience is the same in all the great Orders, absolute, without reserve; its formula is well summed up by Saint Augustine.
Both come from the Colbert collection, and were placed on the shelves of that glorious Colbertine library by the Librarian Baluze whose name I can never pronounce without uncovering my head; for even in the century of the giants of erudition, Baluze astounds by his greatness.
Be so good as to play, gentlemen." In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave of his friends, Phileas Fogg, at twenty-five minutes past seven, left the Reform Club. Passepartout, who had conscientiously studied the program of his duties, was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour.
A creature of impulse, seldom actuated by reflection, the black man astounds by his complete obtuseness, and as suddenly confounds you by an unexpected exhibition of sympathy. From a long experience with African savages, I think it is as absurd to condemn the negro in toto, as it is preposterous to compare his intellectual capacity with that of the white man.