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Updated: June 23, 2025
What tremendous faith gripping the very heavens! What marvelous power in prayer. Yet listen to him criticising the faithful remnant whom God lovingly defends against his aspersions. There seems a serious lack there. God seems to understand his need. He asks him to slip down to Horeb for a new vision of his Master. And then He revealed Himself not in whirlwind nor earthquake nor lightning.
And here begins the seeming madness of the Queen when she confesses her love. For a moment she yields to her people's demands, but the sight of the rose-wreaths kindles her rage anew. Prothoe defends her in these lines: "Of life the highest blessing she attempted. Grazing she almost grasped. Her hands now fail her For any other lesser goal to reach."
If it will not, it is bad, no matter who defends it. It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat. The protest against politics for revenue only is as strong in one party as in the other, for the servants of the interests are plentiful in both. In that respect there is little to choose between them.
Let thy surtout defend the gaping shower." And again: "That garment best the winter's rage defends Whose shapeless form in ample plaits depends; By various names in various countries known, Yet held in all the true surtout alone. Be thine of kersey tine, though small the cost, Then brave, unwet, the rain, unchilled, the frost."
We have fewer than France, and many other countries; but our soldiers do not work like yours; they are always soldiers, and fight bravely." Moors. "We don't understand; how wonderful! the French must conquer you with more soldiers." Traveller. "We have more ships, and our principal country is an island; the sea surrounds us, and defends us." Moors. "How much pay has the Governor of Gibraltar?"
What account is to be given of self-contradiction such as this, but the fact, that he would deny the additions, if he could, and defends them, because he can't?
"What," asked she, raising her head proudly "what secures WORTH and defends BEAUTY?" The dog took up the staff and shouldered it. "And to what can the soldier look for aid when he starves and will not beg?" The dog seemed puzzled, the suspense was awful.
He met Amy's full look, and was conscious of that in it which corresponded to his own brutality. She had become suddenly a much older woman; her cheeks were tight drawn into thinness, her lips were bloodlessly hard, there was an unknown furrow along her forehead, and she glared like the animal that defends itself with tooth and claw. 'Do as YOU think fit? Indeed!
With what fervour the poet feels her neglect! with what eagerness he defends her from the animadversions of the friend who would have dissolved the spell! The poet was doomed to endure more poignant sorrows than slights. Mademoiselle had the art of persuading Molière that he was only his own "cocu imaginaire;" but these domestic embarrassments multiplied.
Sainte-Beuve, the greatest critic of the age, defends her against this charge; but the book was doubtless very emotional, into which she poured all the warmth of her ardent and ungoverned soul in its restless agitation and cravings for sympathy, a record of herself, blasted in her marriage hopes and aspirations. It is a sort of New Héloïse, and, though powerful, is not healthy.
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