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She did not pray; she whispered her anger, her unhappiness, her desires, to the air of the cold, still room, repeating the same phrases again and again with clenched hands and the convulsive gestures of half-controlled passion.
In other words, while the joy of God be unlimited creation, the special joy of man is limited creation, the combination of creation with limits. Man's pleasure, therefore, is to possess conditions, but also to be partly possessed by them; to be half-controlled by the flute he plays or by the field he digs.
But her fingers were deep into the honest pain-wrack of his calf, and in her he could observe no reluctance of fear. "It's creeping up," he grunted through tight teeth, the grunt itself a half-controlled groan. He stiffened his whole right leg, as with another spasm, hurting his real minor cramps, but flexing the muscles of his upper leg into the seeming hardness of cramp.
Look at that look at it, and then try to talk to me." He pointed back toward the stairs where a gang of eight laborers were carrying a heavy timber across the shadowy floor. "Well, what about it?" said Pete, with half-controlled rage. "What about it! But never mind. I'm a busy man myself. I've got no more time to waste on the likes of you. Take a good look at that, and then listen to me.
Susan's half-controlled spasms here got the better of her. While Evan was awaiting the return of her calmer senses, the latch was lifted, and Polly appeared. 'At it again! was her sneering comment, after a short survey of her apron-screened sister; and then she bobbed to Evan. 'It's whimper, whimper, and squeak, squeak, half their lives with some girls.
Say that you'll marry me say it before we get to the crossing. Say it, Laura." She listened to his first words with a little half-controlled smile, then made as if she would withdraw her hand, but he held it with his own, and she heard him through, walking beside him formally in her bare feet, and looking carefully at the asphalt pavement as they do in Putney.
Look at that look at it, and then try to talk to me." He pointed back toward the stairs where a gang of eight laborers were carrying a heavy timber across the shadowy floor. "Well, what about it?" said Pete, with half-controlled rage. "What about it! But never mind. I'm a busy man myself. I've got no more time to waste on the likes of you. Take a good look at that, and then listen to me.
Say that you'll marry me say it before we get to the crossing. Say it, Laura." She listened to his first words with a little half-controlled smile, then made as if she would withdraw her hand, but he held it with his own, and she heard him through, walking beside him formally on her bare feet, and looking carefully at the asphalt pavement as they do in Putney.
Susan's half-controlled spasms here got the better of her. While Evan was awaiting the return of her calmer senses, the latch was lifted, and Polly appeared. 'At it again! was her sneering comment, after a short survey of her apron-screened sister; and then she bobbed to Evan. 'It's whimper, whimper, and squeak, squeak, half their lives with some girls.
And this is precisely the temper and the spirit of Byron. Nowhere else do we see drawn in such traits that colossal figure, which has haunted Europe these fourscore years and more, with its new-born passion, its half-controlled will, its constant cry for a multitude of unknown blessings under the single name of Freedom, the one known and unadulterated word of blessing.
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