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The change in her was little less than a marvel to me, when I remembered the wilful miss who had come to London bent upon pleasure alone. Truly, she was of that rare metal which refines, and then outshines all others. And there was much I could not understand. A miracle had saved her from the Duke of Chartersea, but why she had refused so many great men and good was beyond my comprehension.
An effective scene of this type occurs in Monsieur Beaucaire, where the supposed hairdresser is on the point of being ejected with contumely from the pump-room at Bath, when the French Ambassador enters, drops on his knee, kisses the young man's hand, and presents him to the astounded company as the Duc d'Orléans, Comte de Valois, and I know not what besides a personage who immeasurably outshines the noblest of his insulters.
Both, during their declining years, hung loose upon society; and both, in their last moments, made eccentric and unjustifiable dispositions of their estates. But in every point Congreve maintained his superiority to Wycherley. Wycherley had wit; but the wit of Congreve far outshines that of every comic writer, except Sheridan, who has arisen within the last two centuries.
Away in a sheltered mountainous retreat, apart from the louder clamor of the world, the Poet and his heavenly companion dwell in peace together. Their love, their wondrous happiness, no mortal language can define, for spiritual love perfected as far exceeds material passion as the steadfast glory of the sun outshines the nickering of an earthly taper.
All who were not waltzing, and many who were waltzing, were talking of Sybil. "Who is she? What is she? Where did she come from? Does any one know her?" were some of the questions that were asked on all sides. "She outshines every one in the room," whispered a "Crusader" to a "Quaker."
The Sibyls and Prophets stand under canopies, surrounded by foliage, fruits, and flowers, or isolated from each other by little buttresses or pilasters. This Gothic portal quite outshines, in its graceful elaboration, the smaller door which stands near it, in the simpler and not less potent charm of the Romanesque.
Your favourite, Madame la Baronne, is interdicted from presenting himself here so long as he persists in offending me. She was requested to explain, and, with the fair ingenuousness which outshines innocence, she touched on the story of the glove. Ah! what a delicate, what an exciting, how subtle a question!
It was the spirit of the dead Christian priest; he too was coming to her wedding feast coming from heaven. "The glory and brightness yonder outshines everything that is known on earth!" he said.
You arrive at a strangely just estimate of a writer's worth by the mere question: "What is he the author of?" for every writer whose work is destined to live is the author of one book that outshines the other, and, in popular imagination, epitomises his talent and position. Ask the same question about Milton, Fielding, Byron, Carlyle, Thackeray, Zola, Mr Swinburne.
The young gentleman was Arthur Donnithorne, known in Hayslope, variously, as "the young squire," "the heir," and "the captain." He was only a captain in the Loamshire Militia, but to the Hayslope tenants he was more intensely a captain than all the young gentlemen of the same rank in his Majesty's regulars he outshone them as the planet Jupiter outshines the Milky Way.
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