nobly-dangerous

Updated: July 25, 2025

The feasting Romans were conceivable enough, I mean as a conception; no mystery hung about them in the sense of one's asking one's self whence they had come and by what romantic or roundabout or nobly-dangerous journey; which is that air of the poetic shaken out as from strong wings when great presences, in any one of the arts, appear to alight.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others