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I have touched on this matter elsewhere, so I need not refer to it further here. Tobacco is the constant consoler of the Japanese in all his troubles. Why he smokes such diminutive pipes I have never been able to understand.
"Or dying thank you," said the boy. "You are something like a consoler. I know it's a shame to bore you about it, but I've no one else to talk to." "I'd give my right hand to help you, old fellow," said the tutor; "but, as you say, I'm absolutely no use in a case like this." "I know. Come upstairs and play something."
Communion with nature is in Wordsworth's doctrine the school of duty. With Byron nature is the mighty consoler and the vindicator of the rebel.
But Richard was always the consoler the optimist where she was concerned. Could she have lived at all if it had not been so? And then, for the second time, the rush of feeling rose, welling up, not from the springs of the past, but from the deepest sources of the present. Richard!
She had at last perceived, the kindly consoler assured the weeping girl, what the most sacred duty commanded, and the course that promised to render her, after so much suffering, one of the happiest of mothers.
She felt that D'Harmental was sad, and when she sat down to her harpsichord, was it not from a secret feeling that music is the consoler of troubled hearts? That evening it was D'Harmental who played, and Bathilde listened with all her soul to the melodious voice which spoke of love in the dead of night.
Ah, what depth and what height of righteousness, mindful of the dead and not forgetting the living. He is the Spirit who protects me by His commands, my good and merciful counsellor, my helper and consoler in misfortune." Two or three of Cardan's treatises are in the materna lingua, but he wrote almost entirely in Latin, using a style which was emphatically literary.
"That is something that is never seen. You complain because bottles become empty? There are many casks in the vaults, and many vaults in the hills. Give me a dainty fish-hook gilded with sweet words, a drop of honey for bait, and quick! catch in the stream of oblivion a pretty consoler, as fresh and slippery as an eel; you will still have the hook when the fish shall have glided from your hands.
But he only replied by a gesture and fled to his room, and when, later on, she ventured to refer to it, he stopped her on the threshold, as if with words prepared beforehand. 'There are some pains, said he, 'too acute for consolation, or I would bring them to my kind consoler.
Vengeance ought to ripen slowly in the strong heat of intense wrath, till of itself it falls hastily snatched before its time it is like unmellowed fruit, sour and ungrateful to the palate. So I let my dear friend my wife's consoler saunter on his heedless way without interference I passed, leaving him to indulge in amorous musings to his false heart's content.
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