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Updated: May 28, 2025
I mean one of those pleasant fellows who travel post in their elbow-chair, sail round the world on a map suspended to one side of their room, cross the seas with a pocket-compass lying on their table, experience a shipwreck by their fireside, make their escape when it scorches their shins, and land on a desert island in their robe de chambre and slippers.
Let the sun scorch the skin and blister it until it peels, and scorches and peels again, and scorches and peels alternately until, having no more dominion over the flesh, it tinctures the very blood and transmutes mere ruddiness to bronze. Thereafter you know not for ever the pallor of the street for have you not the gold of the sun in your blood and his iron in your bones?
It scorches him up, as the presence of Jupiter in full dress wasted that poor imprudent Semele a giddy moth of a creature who ruined herself by venturing out of her natural atmosphere. Her myth ought to be taken to heart amongst the Tyburnians, the Belgravians her story, and perhaps Becky's too. Ah, ladies! ask the Reverend Mr.
His heart throbs, his imagination glows, with all the fire and fervor of the South. He depicts for us a Moor, an African, and the sun of Africa scorches his brain and inflames his passions." "And Hamlet," I remarked, "is thoroughly of the North a German even, rather than Englishman." "To me," answered Rossi, "Hamlet represents no nationality and no one type of character.
Children are playing with matches; one holds the ignited match till, it scorches the fingers, and then drops it.
"I'm not going to deny that Hugh's a fine fellow, Robin; but I remember, long ago, ay, thirteen or fourteen years past, before he entered on the regular buccaneering trade, there wasn't a firmer Cavalier amongst the whole of us Kentish men. Blazes! how he fought at Marston! But a few years' sunning off the hot Havannah either scorches the spirit out of a man, or burns it in."
The time for their annual return has come has passed, and still the pitiless sun scorches the brown earth as if it would set afire the grass it has already burned to tinder-dryness.
The strong consciousness of such power was indeed sweet and intoxicating. Her mind naturally reverted to him who had most clearly asserted her possession of it. "He, too, would have equal appreciation of this scenery," she said to herself. Then came the sudden remembrance, shrivelling her pretty dreams as the lightning scorches and withers. "He he is dead! he must be by this time!"
A sun inimical to the men of our climate scorches the enormous fossil which, crumbling in places, is all that remains of Thebes and which lies there like the carcass of a gigantic beast that has been dead for thousands of years, but is too massive ever to be annihilated. In the hypostyle there is a little blue shade behind the monstrous pillars, but even that shade is dusty and hot.
The teacher, as a rule, has awakened to a sense of the "I" consciousness, and really develops the same by his "I Am God" attitude, because by holding this mental attitude he is enabled to throw off the influence of the sheaths of the lower mental principles, and the light of the Self shows forth fiercely and strongly, sometimes to such an extent that it fairly scorches the mentality of the less advanced pupil.
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