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Updated: May 5, 2025
Ah! my fount, thou wilt not put out rays of my Grecian sun, though thou triest ever so hard with thy nimble and silver arms. And now, what form steals yonder through the boughs? she glides like a moonbeam! she has a garland of oak-leaves on her head. In her hand is a vase upturned, from which she pours pink and tiny shells and sparkling water. Oh! look on yon face! Man never before saw its like.
There are parks, but no palaces there are fertile fields, but none to till them for it is even dangerous to traverse them in the open light of day. The trapper skulks silently along the creek scarcely trusting himself to whisper to his companion and watching warily as he renews the bait of castoreum. The hunter glides with stealthy tread from copse to copse dreading the echo of his own rifle.
She glides, she runs, she flies; emotion colors her cheek, brightens her eye; fatigue bends her flexile form, retards her winged feet, until, panting and exhausted, she softly sinks and reclines in the arms of her partner, who, seizing her with vigorous arm, raises her a moment in the air, before finishing with her the last intoxicating round.
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity. I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
The feather-light drifting of blown petals; the swaying grace of a swan as it glides along the surface of the water; the quivering, spirit-like flight of a butterfly it seemed as though all these had been caught and blended together by the dancer.
Fancy a surgeon, with his nippers lifting tendons, muscles and such things into view, out of the complex machinery of a corpse, and observing, "Now this little nerve quivers the vibration is imparted to this muscle from here it is passed to this fibrous substance; here its ingredients are separated by the chemical action of the blood one part goes to the heart and thrills it with what is popularly termed emotion, another part follows this nerve to the brain and communicates intelligence of a startling character the third part glides along this passage and touches the spring connected with the fluid receptacles that lie in the rear of the eye.
A smaller shadow separates from the larger one; it stoops low, and glides along slowly and cautiously. All are wrapped in slumber. The shadow stops before the tent; and now something glitters, like two sparkling stars fallen from heaven. Perhaps they are the eyes of some savage beast prowling near the camp in search of prey. No one sees these eyes.
I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing. The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery. The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more active the mind.
Whirlpool after whirlpool glides from the oars, revolving to the rear with a threefold motion, round and round, backwards and outwards. The crew impart their own life to their boat; the animate and inanimate become as one, the boat is no longer wooden but alive. If there be a breeze a fleet of white sails comes round the willow-hidden bend.
The heroine, for instance, glides into life full-charged with rank, virtues, a name three-syllabled, and a white dress that never needs washing, ready to sail through dangers dire into a triumphant haven of matrimony; all the aristocrats have high foreheads and cold blue eyes; all the peasants are old women, miraculously grateful, in neat check aprons, or sullen-browed insurgents planning revolts in caves.
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