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So understood, society is a form of poetry; the cultivated classes deliberately recompose the idyll of the past and the buried world of Astrea.
Begin from intuition: it is a summit from which we can descend by infinite slopes; it is a picture which we can place in an infinite number of frames. But all the frames together will not recompose the picture, and the lower ends of all the slopes will not explain how they meet at the summit.
He is not one of those, 'who to make clean, efface, and who cure diseases by death. To found so great a thing as the state anew; to dissolve that so old and solid structure, and undertake to recompose it as a whole on the spot, is a piece of work which this chemist, after a survey of his apparatus, declines to take in; though he fairly admits, that if the question were of 'a new world, and not 'a world already formed to certain customs, science might have, perhaps, some important suggestions to make as to the original structure.
The contrast between mediæval Christianity and renascent Paganism the sharp conflict of two adverse principles, destined to fuse their forces and to recompose the modern world made the Renaissance what it was in Italy.
It is all right over there, Father Boyle, I suppose? 'A walk over! a pure ceremonial, said the priest, and he yawned frightfully. 'You're for a nap to recompose you, my dear friend, remarked the captain. 'But you haven't confided anything of it to Mrs. Adister? 'Not a syllable; no. That's to come. There's my contest!
he should be too weak to new-model and recompose it to a tolerable condition; but what he thought he could effect by persuasion upon the pliable, and by force upon the stubborn, this he did, as he himself says, With force and justice working both one.
He set the boat swaying from side to side, and at once the hugeous reflection of that conceivably self-enamoured bulk quavered and distended, and was shattered in a thousand dancing fragments, to re-unite and recompose its maudlin air of imaged satisfaction. She began to have a vague idea that he was indulging grotesque fancies.
He said, the immensity of his love deprived him of the power of gratification, and that some commerce with an object, to which his heart was not attached, might, by diminishing the transports of his spirits, recompose his nerves, and enable him to enjoy the fruits of his good fortune. "You may be sure I made no objection to this plan, which was immediately put into execution.
I defy any rational man to recompose, with a semblance of probability, the character Rousseau gives to the woman he loved, from the contradictory elements which he describes in her. Those elements exclude each other: if she had soul enough to adore Rousseau, she did not at the same time love Claude Anet; if she grieved for Claude Anet and Rousseau, she did not love the young hair-dresser.
This trifling subject kept us merry, but Madame Vestri expressed a devout wish that all authors would do for her what I had done. At Paris, where I heard her playing well and lisping terribly, she did not find the authors so obliging, but she pleased the people. She asked me if I would undertake to recompose Zaire, leaving out the r's.
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