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Updated: July 15, 2025
And yet, in such winter-seasons of Denial, it is for the nobler-minded perhaps a comparative misery to have been born, and to be awake and work; and for the duller a felicity, if, like hibernating animals, safe-lodged in some Salamanca University or Sybaris City, or other superstitious or voluptuous Castle of Indolence, they can slumber through, in stupid dreams, and only awaken when the loud-roaring hailstorms have all alone their work, and to our prayers and martyrdoms the new Spring has been vouchsafed."
What a loud-roaring, loose and empty matter is this tornado of vociferation which men call "Public Opinion"! Tragically howling round a man; who has to stand silent the while; and scan, wisely under pain of death, the altogether inarticulate, dumb and inexorable matter which the gods call Fact! Friedrich did read his terrible Sphinx-riddle; the Gazetteer tornado did pipe and blow.
Kenge gave me his arm and we went round the corner, under a colonnade, and in at a side door. And so we came, along a passage, into a comfortable sort of room where a young lady and a young gentleman were standing near a great, loud-roaring fire. A screen was interposed between them and it, and they were leaning on the screen, talking.
Those were some of the pleasantest days of my boyhood which my brother Jack and I spent with Uncle Boz in his curious-looking abode on the shore of the loud-roaring, tumultuous German Ocean, or North Sea, as it is more frequently called.
Were it humanly possible, after so much catcalling at random! Smelfungus has a right to say, speaking of this matter: "Never was such a jumble of loud-roaring ignorances, delusions and confusions, as the current Records of it are. And truly they have left it for us in a wonderful state.
How the shuttles fly, and the life-threads, always, in this "loud-roaring Loom of Time!" None of the Orders rose so high as the Teutonic in favor with mankind. Valiant servants, these; to whom Heaven had vouchsafed great labors and unspeakable blessings.
I followed the footsteps of the Great Seekers over the wastes, the untrodden paths of the world; I tracked Columbus across the pathless Atlantic, heard, with Balboa, the "wave of the loud-roaring ocean break upon the long shore, and the vast sea of the Pacific forever crash on the beach," gazed with Cortes on the temples of the Sun in the startling Mexican empire, or wandered with Pizarro through the silver-lined palaces of Peru.
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