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This was, however, an enthusiasm of a peculiar sort it was well disciplined, an enthusiasm combined with and controlled by the highest order. "In this the fundamental secret of German power was revealed: to remain calm in enthusiasm, cold amidst fire and still obedient to duty in a tornado of passion.
Beginning with Paul's baby fondness for her picture, she related to Ida the whole story of his love for her, which had grown with his growth, and, from a boyish sentiment, become the ruling passion of the man, blinding him to the charms of living women, and making him a monk for her sake.
I am as pagan as Alcibiades or as Phidias.... I never gathered on Golgotha the flowers of the Passion, and the deep stream which flowed from from the side of the Crucified and made a red girdle round the world never bathed me in its tide. I believe earth to be as beautiful as heaven, and I think that precision of form is virtue.
At last, "What will you do?" she asked in the same hushed voice. "Where will you go?" He turned slowly towards her. "I really don't know. I haven't begun to think." His eyes looked deeply into hers, but they held no passion, no emotion of any sort. They made her think with a sudden intolerable stab of pain of that night when he had put out the fire of his passion to receive her kiss.
I am free to confess a profound reverence for many of these men determined at all hazards to keep their souls unspotted from the world. I bow before a passion for righteousness ready to part with life itself if necessary. Yet the gross extravagances, the almost incredible absurdities of their unnatural lives compel us to withhold our judgment.
Her own child, whose head she had cut off, bathed in her blood. The witch fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland.
"Yes, three," she said, "there is one here, one I carry, and Mrs. Morgan has one." "Have you seen Jack Glover lately?" Jean never pursued an enquiry too far, by so much as one syllable. "No, I haven't seen him," smiled Lydia, "You weren't a good prophet." "I expect he is busy," said the girl carelessly. "I think I could like Jack awfully if he hadn't such a passion for ordering people about.
'She is my wife, and therefore your sister-in-law', replied Upasunda. And they said unto each other, 'She is mine not yours. And soon they were under the influence of rage. Maddened by the beauty of the damsel, they soon forgot their love and affection for each other. Both of them, deprived of reason by passion, then took up their fierce maces.
"I will not attempt to palliate a deception which your charms could alone inspire and can alone justify. Hear me, Lady Iduna, hear me with calmness. I love you; I love you with a passion which has been as constant as it is strong. My birth, my rank, my fortunes, do not disqualify me for an union with the daughter of the great Hunniades.
In vain he recalled her beauty, her grace, her genius her singular and enthusiastic passion for himself the voice still replied, "Thou dost not love. Bid farewell for ever to thy fond dreams of a life more blessed than that of mortals. From the stormy sea of the future are blotted out eternally for thee Calypso and her Golden Isle.
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