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Not one of them alluded to the philosophical 'hundred years hence. For when England, thanks to a spirited pair of our young noblemen, has exhibited one of her characteristic performances consummately, Philosophy is bidden fly; she is a foreign bird. Kit Ines cocked an eye at Madge, in the midst of the congratulations and the paeans pumping his arms.
The consummation of a great conquest, a thing celebrated in paeans and thanksgivings, the very height of the day-dreams of unregenerate man it seems to be a great joy, and it is in truth a great misery. It is conquest seen when the thrill of battle is over, and nothing remains but to wait and think.
The men were constantly impressed by these paeans of the forests; the tuft of violets abloom beneath a horse's hoofs might be crushed unnoticed, but the acoustic conditions of the air and the high floating of the tenuous white clouds against a dense blue sky, promising rain in due season, evoked a throb of satisfaction in the farmer's heart not less sincere because unaesthetic.
Then came the triumph in Paris hosannahs in the churches, huzzas in the public places not for the King, but for Guise. Paris, more madly in love with her champion than ever, prostrated herself at his feet. For him paeans as to a deliverer. Without him the ark would have fallen into the hands of the Philistines.
And when silence had fallen about us he swept his hand dramatically toward McTurkle. "Gentlemen," he cried, "the band!" "A-a-a-aye!" they cheered. "Band! band!" "Where's the band?" called those further down the line, and the news traveled fast until from far down by Thayer came wild paeans of delight.
Aunt Jane wept very much, and handed me Paeans of Passion with the request that she might never see it again. We parted from Senor Gonzales not without regrets. It was an impressive leave-taking indeed, Senor, Gonzales in his least word and gesture was impressive. Also, he managed subtly and respectfully to impart to me the knowledge that he shared Titian's tastes in the matter of hair.
When, after a couple of months, he had finished the task, there was an incessant throbbing in his forehead, and alas for the sudden tumble from the heights of Parnassus! he had lost almost entirely the power of digesting food. But the play was done. He sent it off to be copied, and wrote paeans of thanksgiving to Corydon.
"It so happened, however, that my deification was due neither to my recognition as a diplomatist nor as a military strategist," said the explorer. "No, they wanted something beyond the mere fighting man to worship, and my knowledge of that fact combined with their paeans of victory to the obbligato of a solid iron-wood drum beaten with the thigh bones of the conquered to keep me awake at night.
If they venture a step in advance, and attempt to lead, to lift up the masses, or to elevate the standard of thought and extend its range, they are scoffed at as pedants, and die unhonored prophets; and just as the tomb is sealed above them, people peer more closely into their books, and whisper, 'There is something here after all; great men have been among us. The next generation chants paeans, and casts chaplets on the graves, and so the world rings with the names of ghosts, and fame pours generous libations to appease the manes of genius slaughtered on the altar of criticism.
In short, she thirsted for any draught but the clear spring water of her own life, flowing hidden among green pastures. She adored Byron and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or anybody else with a picturesque or dramatic career. Her tears were ready to flow for every misfortune; she sang paeans for every victory.
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