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"With teaching, what a man for the arena! What a runner! Ye gods! what an arm for the sword or the cestus! Stay!" he said aloud. Ben-Hur stopped, and the tribune went to him. "If thou wert free, what wouldst thou do?" "The noble Arrius mocks me!" Judah said, with trembling lips. "No; by the gods, no!" "Then I will answer gladly. I would give myself to duty the first of life. I would know no other.
But Elizabeth knew that his appearance in the conversation invariably meant a fait accompli of some sort. "I read him some of Mr. Cliffe's letters," said Mary, modestly. "He thought them most remarkable." "Even when he mocks at missionaries?" "Oh! but he doesn't mock at them any more. He has learned wisdom I assure you he has!"
As who, through many a summer night serene Had hover'd round the fold with coward wish; Horrid with brumal ice, the fiercer wolf, From his bleak mountain and his den of snows Leaps terrible and mocks the shepherd's spear. "June, 1796. My dear Cottle, I am sojourning for a few days at Racedown, Dorset, the mansion of our friend Wordsworth; who presents his kindest respects to you....
Do you hear it, proud slayer of red panthers? Ha! it mocks you both!" "Oh! bother, girl!" exclaimed. Wingrove in a vexed tone; "ye're a talkin' nonsense." "Truth, White Eagle truth! the black snake has been in your nest; and yours too, slayer of panthers! He has wound himself around your pretty birds, and borne them away in his coils away over the great desert plains away to the Big Lake!
Sparks of the faith, however, and of the force of miracles had been scattered and lost in the Cevennes. For the spirit possesses the property of fire, which, out of a little spark, by which a small beetle cannot warm itself, grows, in a few hours, into a brand that lays woods in ashes, and mocks all human efforts to extinguish it. What may not lie in one single word?
"Indeed, my dear Struboff, there's no telling, but I suppose in the arms of somebody else." "Your own, for example?" growled the husband. "Observe the usual reticences," said Wetter, with a laugh. "My dear Baron, Struboff mocks my misery by a pretended jealousy. You can reassure him. Did Madame Mansoni ever favour me?" "I can speak only of what I know," I answered, smiling.
Now this magnitude is either extensive in space and time or intensive greatness of force or power; accordingly there are two forms of the sublime. That phenomenon which mocks the power of comprehension possessed by the human imagination or surpasses every measure of our intuition, as the ocean and the starry heavens, is mathematically sublime.
It may have been only a dream unaccountably verified, an undefinable presentiment or forewarning; but up from such slighter and vaguer tokens of the realm of marvel, up to the portents of ghostly apparitions or haunted chambers, I believe that the greater number of persons arrived at middle age, however instructed the class, however civilized the land, however sceptical the period, to which they belong, have either in themselves experienced, or heard recorded by intimate associates whose veracity they accept as indisputable in all ordinary transactions of life, phenomena which are not to be solved by the wit that mocks them, nor, perhaps, always and entirely, to the contentment of the reason or the philosophy that explains them away.
The mountains give their lost children berries and water; the sea mocks their thirst and lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle.
Francis's follower reflected a little while and then seized a fiddle and began capering and dancing about the garden, playing a wild tune and generally expressing a violent and invigorating indifference. The tune is not recorded, but it is the eternal chorus of mankind, that modifies all the arts and mocks all the individualisms, like the laughter and thunder of some distant sea.
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