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"Let 'em call," said Myrtella, to whom these comparisons of past places were replete with interest. "It's just Miss Hattie; if she's got anything worth sayin', she can come down and say it." It was evidently worth saying, for a moment later, a thin, sharp- featured girl of fourteen thrust her head in at the door. "Myrtella, I told you I wanted that white dress fixed.
Joseph, because, when I was utterly lost, God, through their prayers, came and saved me. One day, after the feast of St. Matthew, I was as is usual with me, after seeing in a vision the most Holy Trinity, and how It is present in a soul in a state of grace. I understood the mystery most clearly, in such a way that, after a certain fashion and comparisons, I saw It in an imaginary vision.
When the King of Spain, knowing he was a farmer, thoughtfully sent him a present of a jackass, Washington proposed naming the animal in honor of the donor; and in writing to friends about the present, draws invidious comparisons between the gift and the giver.
As comparisons are necessary to him, he will pay a frankly impossible homage, and compare a woman's face to something too fine, to something it never could emulate. The Elizabethan lyrist is safe among lilies and cherries, roses, pearls, and snow. He undertakes the beautiful office of flattery, and flatters with courage. There is no hidden reproach in the praise.
"Abundance" was neither meeting with the unrestricted welcome of "Diadems and Faggots," nor enjoying the alternative of an animated controversy: it was simply found dull, and its readers said so in language not too tactfully tempered by regretful comparisons with its predecessor.
'She is to us in this London, what the run of water was to Theocritus in Sicily: the nearest to the visibly divine, he said, and was applauded. 'Good, and on you go. Top me a few superlatives on that, and I 'm your echo, my friend. Isn't the seeing and listening to her like sitting under the silvery canopy of a fountain in high Summer? 'All the comparisons are yours, Arthur said enviously.
The representation of the part of Lady Macbeth, which afterward became one of my favourite roles, preoccupied me greatly, as I knew only too well what kind of comparisons would be made. The remembrance of the marvellous creation of that character as given by the famous Mrs. Siddons and the traditional criticisms of the press, might have rendered the public very severe and difficult to please.
"I hate them," she said, pointing to the latter. "Stars are better," said her companion. She turned on him swiftly. "How did you know I was making comparisons?" "I felt it," he murmured. They walked slowly down the steps. At the bottom a carriage and pair seemed to rise mysteriously out of the earth. "'Ave a drive? Ver' good carriage," said a voice out of the dimness.
For there are resemblances which by means of comparisons arrive at the point they aim at, in this manner. "If a guardian is bound to behave with good faith, and a partner, and any one to whom you have entrusted anything, and any one who has undertaken a trust then so ought an agent."
Let her set to her seal, that Religion, however received by man, is a gift which she can never, with impunity, decline. When piety presents its claims to the sterner sex, they raise doubts, and questionings, and comparisons with other goods. But woman may not hesitate for a moment.
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