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Updated: June 20, 2025
Victor Hugo draws in sulphuric acid, he lights his pictures with electric light. He deafens, blinds, and bewilders his reader rather than he charms or persuades him. Strength carried to such a point as this is a fascination; without seeming to take you captive, it makes you its prisoner; it does not enchant you, but it holds you spellbound.
It is the shallow stream only, which dashes, and sparkles, and deafens us by its noise. If you ever know the power of genuine love, you will find it as calm as it is intense. It will be in harmony with your other pure sentiments. Never will it subjugate, and tyrannize over, and do violence to, your whole nature.
The enormous enclosed air, the giant statues, the dim and distant roofs, the indescribable concert of sound of the movement of feet, the murmur of ten thousand voices, the peal of organs like the crying of gnats, the thin celestial music the faint suggestive smell of incense and men and bruised bay and myrtle and, supreme above all, the vibrant atmosphere of human emotion, shot with supernatural aspiration, as the Hope of the World, the holder of Divine Vice-Royalty, passed on his way to stand between God and man this affected the priest as the action of a drug that at once lulls and stimulates, that blinds while it gives new vision, that deafens while it opens stopped ears, that exalts while it plunges into new gulfs of consciousness.
But the essay upon Gray is quiet in tone; it has an unity of treatment, and never deserts the principal subject; it is suffused with light, and full of the most delicate allusions: the essay on Collins, by being written in superlatives and vague similes, deafens and perplexes the reader; and the author, by squandering his resources, has no power to make fine distinctions, nor to exalt one part of his thesis above another.
The silence deafens me! the plenty takes away my appetite! the safety makes me low!" "Hum! you are like the Bowery boys in times of peace, 'spoiling for a fight." "Yes. I am! just decomposing above ground for want of having my blood stirred, and I wish I was back in the Bowery! Something was always happening there! One day a fire, next day a fight, another day a fire and a fight together."
"Trusty, Trusty," he said, "do you know me, Trusty?" and his tears fell fast into the dog's bristly coat. The poor creature, now far gone in that unconsciousness which deafens the ear to the voice of love itself, still faintly heard the familiar tones, for he lifted his eyes to his master's face and nestled closer into his bosom.
So great was the public disappointment, that the tribe of false prophets whose cry of "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper," deafens us here, not less, usually in defeat than in success did for awhile abate their blatancy; while Ericsson most confident of projectors spake softly, below his breath, as he suggested faint excuse and encouragement.
The stranger, glaring into Waggoner's face with those two goggling eyes of his, which were all eyeballs, threw up both arms at full length and gave a great gagging outcry. "It's come!" he shrieked; "it's come! The silence has done it at last. It deafens me I'm deaf! I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
There's precious little difference between a fellow like me and the damned grinding mechanism that I spend my days in drawing that roars all day in my ears and deafens me. I'll put an end to that. Here's four hundred pounds. It shall mean four hundred pounds'-worth of life. While this money lasts, I'll feel that I'm a human being."
It is incipient insanity. The bore of society is constituted by his one-sidedness. His ear is deficient in the sense of harmony, and he deafens and disgusts you by harping on one string.
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