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They were amazed and helpless before it; for with their wrath hot against Mahomet, it was as if their antagonist had melted into insubstantial vapours to leave them enraged and breathless, pursuing a phantom continually elusive. So silent was the emigration that they were only made aware of it when the quarter was almost deserted.
The Fair was like him both in its moral broadness and its material all-inclusiveness. In his absence no poet has risen "to the height of this great argument," so that now the insubstantial pageant is faded, now that "the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples," have dissolved, "like the baseless fabric of a vision," they have left not a rack of real literature behind.
Holly had pressed her lips again to his forehead with the feeling that it confirmed his theory that all matter was becoming spirit his brow felt, somehow, so insubstantial. But the most poignant memory of that little visit had been watching, unobserved, her stepmother reading to herself a letter from Jon. It was she decided the prettiest sight she had ever seen.
So feeble and insubstantial did he feel himself that he repeated the word aloud. "In what can one trust? Not in men and women. Not in one's dreams about them. There's nothing nothing, nothing left at all." Now Denham had reason to know that he could bring to birth and keep alive a fine anger when he chose. Rodney provided a good target for that emotion.
It is the duty of patriotic men to keep this great popular faculty always in view, to satisfy its natural demand for clearness and practicality in the measures proposed, and not to distract it and render it nugatory by the insubstantial metaphysics of abstract policy.
Thoreau, if we can imagine him writing a romance, would have added the botanical name. "Rappacini's Daughter" is a very representative instance of those "insubstantial fictions for the illustration of moral truths, not always of much moment." Here was one of those morbid situations, with a hint of psychological possibilities and moral applications, that never failed to fascinate Hawthorne.
Holly had pressed her lips again to his forehead with the feeling that it confirmed his theory that all matter was becoming spirit his brow felt, somehow, so insubstantial. But the most poignant memory of that little visit had been watching, unobserved, her stepmother reading to herself a letter from Jon. It was she decided the prettiest sight she had ever seen.
As a matter of fact, when he thought about it at all he was quite sure that she did not understand or appreciate the nature of her affection for him or his for her. It had no basis in responsibility. It was one of those things born of thin air sunlight, bright waters, the reflection of a bright room things which are intangible and insubstantial.
If he and his mother were living in a small way on their few hundreds a year, he might haw-haw as much as he liked, and I should only laugh at him; he'd be a fool, but an honest one. But catch them doing that! Family pride's too insubstantial a thing, you see. Well, as I said, they illustrate the natural course of things, the transition from the old age to the new.
On the raised tessellated pavement of the inner hall stood two meditative youngish footmen, possibly musing upon the problems of the intensification of the Military Service Act which were then exciting journalists and statesmen. Beyond was the renowned staircase, which, rising with insubstantial grace, lost itself in silvery altitude like the way to heaven.
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