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Updated: June 3, 2025
After an apparently total evanescence there has been a like resuscitation of the spirit of summer society.
Manston introduced into his method a system of bewitching flattery, everywhere pervasive, yet, too, so transitory and intangible, that, as in the case of the poet Wordsworth and the Wandering Voice, though she felt it present, she could never find it. As a foil to heighten its effect, he occasionally spoke philosophically of the evanescence of female beauty the worthlessness of mere appearance.
Slabs of granite engraven with half-effaced inscriptions in Pali, and in unknown characters, are still found, mystifying the most learned antiquarians, while the significance of others has been made plain by means of commendable patience and scholarly acquirements. What an object lesson is here presented, attesting the evanescence of all mundane power and glory.
Fortunately, the majority of our American houses, built of wood, are temporary in character; and most city buildings at present have a life of but a generation or two. In this evanescence of our contemporary architecture lies the hope for an eventual regeneration of American towns.
This maturer feeling, if finer and higher, was less convenient than the old. Ardours of passion could be felt as in youth without the recuperative intervals which had accompanied evanescence. The first sensation was to find that she had long ceased to live in the little freehold cottage she had occupied of old.
It is this spirit of evanescence, this youthful buoyancy, snatched out of the passing years, lived for a moment and then forgot, which constitutes the genuine gaiety of Vienna. It is an unconscious gaiety, sensed but not analysed, in the very soul of the people. It keeps the Viennese young and makes him resent, intuitively, the invasion of other nations to whom gaiety is artificial.
He would run over in the evening before George should have dropped work, and commit the plan to his judgment. In the evening, then, Alec reached the town, on his way to George Macwha. It was a still lovely night, clear and frosty, with yes, there were millions of stars overhead. Away in the north, the streamers were shooting hither and thither, with marvellous evanescence and re-generation.
More, he saw that it was this very evanescence which had for him given childhood its sadness that also gave it its beauty; if there were anywhere on earth a race of perpetual children it would not be beautiful. For he saw that it was the inevitable slipping-away of all life which gave poignancy to loveliness. He spoke something of his thought to Lissa, and she nodded in comprehension.
Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of texture and peculiar suggestion of evanescence characteristic of the unheeded weed as it flowers, the Chilhowee lily caught his eye.
"Mademoiselle," he replied, "I ask myself what is the good of a fleeting happiness. The secret of my gloom is the evanescence of my pleasure." "That is a madrigal," she said, laughing, "which rings of the Court rather than the Polytechnique." "My son only expressed a very natural thought, mademoiselle," said Madame du Gua, who had her own reasons for placating the stranger.
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