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These instructions pointed, in Captain Bennydeck's estimation, to sailing for pleasure's sake, and therefore to hiring a yacht. The third and last letter announced that the yacht had been found, and described the captain's plans when the vessel was ready for sea. He proposed to sail here and there about the Channel, wherever it might please the wind to take him.
Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train; Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain; These mixed with art and to due bounds confined, Make and maintain the balance of the mind; The lights and shades whose well-accorded strife Give all the strength and color to our life Pope. Ishmael's ride up to the city was, upon the whole, as much enjoyed as the ride down had been.
Oh, children of the tropics, Amid our pain and wrong Have you no other mission Than music, dance, and song? When through the weary ages Our dripping tears still fall, Is this a time to dally With pleasure's silken thrall? Go, muffle all your viols; As heroes learn to stand, With faith in God's great justice Nerve every heart and hand.
But in The Vision he accounts for his failings as arising from his artist's temperament. The muse tells him, I saw thy pulses' maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, And yet the light that led astray Was light from Heaven. And in A Bard's Epitaph he reveals himself as the pathetic, misguided poet who has been a favorite in verse ever since his time.
Captain Chiswick gets East and is able to disentangle her affairs." "Indeed it will," the Hen put in. "My generous benefactor shall be squared with if I have to sell my clothes!" "Mustn't think of such a thing. Catch cold," the old gent said. "Pleasure's all mine to assist such noble a woman in her unmerited distress.
But I know myself too well to hope for happiness in the gay frivolous insincere world, where I have fluttered out my butterfly existence of fashionable emptiness. 'I kissed the painted bloom off Pleasure's lips And found them pale as Pain's. I have bruised and singed my Psyche wings, and le beau monde has no new, strong pinions to replace those beat out in its hard tyrannous service.
"Think what it is to have every earthly wisdom, yet to burn unsatisfied for the deeper and forbidden draught; to gather up all wealth and power and let them slip again, like children weary of a painted toy; to sweep the harp of fame, and, maddened by its jangling music, to stamp it small beneath our feet; to snatch at pleasure's goblet and find its wine is sand, and at length, outworn, to cast us down and pray the pitiless gods with whose stolen garment we have wrapped ourselves, to take it back again, and suffer us to slink naked to the grave.
Wearied by sex novels, problem novels, theological novels, and all the other novels with a purpose, one returns to the shelf and takes down a volume from this circle, not because one has not read it, but because one has read it thirty times and wishes for sheer pleasure's sake to read it again.
Slightly and seldom as the Golden Circle touches the lines defining personal or social morality carefully as the Founder has abstained from imposing an ethical code of his own, or attaching to his precepts any rule not directly derived from the fundamental tenets or necessary to the cohesion of the Order he had expressed in strong terms his dread and horror of narcotism; the use for pleasure's sake, not to relieve pain or nervous excitement, of drugs which act, as he said, through the brain upon the soul.
Ever mindful of what has brought them thither no mere excursion for pleasure's sake, but an expedition forced upon them through sad, painful necessity they waste not a second that can be saved.
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