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And then it was almost in his heart to cry out to her, "May not I, too, go up there, if but for a single week for six clear-shining days in the springtime?"
Right down below him, and visible through the birch-trees, was the river itself, of a brilliant, clear-shining blue, save where in some more distant sweeps it shone a silver-white; on the other side of the broad strath rose a range of hill fringed along its base with wood, but terminating in the west in far altitudes of bare rock and heather; while now and again he could catch a glimpse of some still more distant peak or shoulder, no doubt belonging to the remote and mountainous region of Assynt.
He had unbuttoned the top of his waistcoat and he wore his tall hat very far at the back of his head. He had a full unwrinkled face and such clear-shining eyes that his grey beard looked quite false on him, stuck on for a disguise. You said just now he resembled Socrates didn't you? I don't know about that. This Socrates was a wise man, I believe?" "He was," assented Marlow.
I will sing also of Hercules, and the sons of Leda, the one illustrious for his achievements on horseback, the other on foot; whose clear-shining constellation as soon as it has shone forth to the sailors, the troubled surge falls down from the rocks, the winds cease, the clouds vanish, and the threatening waves subside in the sea because it was their will.
He had unbuttoned the top of his waistcoat and he wore his tall hat very far at the back of his head. He had a full unwrinkled face and such clear-shining eyes that his grey beard looked quite false on him, stuck on for a disguise. You said just now he resembled Socrates didn't you? I don't know about that. This Socrates was a wise man, I believe?" "He was," assented Marlow.
But our harp will be a mingled one, for so is our theme; having a sympathy alike for our mirthful and sorrowful moments, which it alike spiritualizes; striking the light, gleesome chord to the one, and attuning the soul to more ethereal joy; while by its soft influence it tones down the harshness of bitter, unavailing sorrow, and woos the heart, misanthropizing under the pangs of grief or unrequited love pent up in its own solitude, unpitied and uncared for and filled with dark thoughts, and sad sounds, and tones of plaintive winds, sighing through the cypress and doleful yew with mournful melody around the resting-place of the loved and lost, to submissive lamentings, and slow stealing tears that assuage its aching anguish and tranquillize the spirit, leading it to the hope of a brighter future, in whose dawning beams it will, ere-long, show like "the tender grass, clear-shining after rain" more glistening and beautiful for the invigorating dews of the cloud which had overhung it, and beneath whose gloom its beauty faded away for very trouble!
He had a 'bright recollection of all his guilt, and his torment was 'as a lake of fire and brimstone. The woman, recovering somewhat from her fright, stood before him with innocent, clear-shining eyes, with half pity and half fear showing in her beautiful countenance for the woman was beautiful.
Then, son of Sualtam, how in thy guileless breast thy heart leaped, when thou heardest the thundering of the great war-car and the wild neighing of the immortal steeds, as they broke from the dark stable into the clear-shining light of day, and heard behind them the ancient roaring of the brazen wheels as in the days when they bore forth Macha and her martial groom against the giants of old, and mightily established in Eiriu the Red Branch of the Ultonians!
He glanced involuntarily out at the blue, and the clear-shining, eternal stars. "I suppose," he said, after a while, cheerfully, "I must content myself with Lois's creed, here, 'It'll come right some time." Lois looked up from the saucepan she was stirring, her face growing quite red, nodding emphatically some half-dozen times.
A thought grew out of her unrest a thought clear-shining amid the tumult of turbid emotions. She would go forth to meet him. He should see that she came with that purpose that she put away all trivialities of prescription and of pride. If he were worthy, only the more would he esteem her. If she deluded herself it lay in the course of Fate.
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