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Updated: May 5, 2025
Truest of all things it seemed by the excess of that happiness which it had sustained: most fraudulent it seemed of all things, when looked back upon as some mysterious parenthesis in the current of life, "self-withdrawn into a wonderous depth," hurrying as if with headlong malice to extinction, and alienated by every feature from the new aspects of life that seemed to await me.
From a great modern poet I cite part of a passage which describes, as an appearance actually beheld in the clouds, what in many of its circumstances I saw frequently in sleep: The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour without end!
While he yet lingered near the door, looking back at her, she moved away slowly to the further end of the room; self-withdrawn into her own dark world shut up in her thoughts from him and from us. The doctor tried to rouse her. "You must not think too seriously of this," he said, following her to the window at which she stood, and dropping his voice so that Oscar could not hear him.
Whether it be the rathe loveliness of an art still immature, or the beauty of art upon the wane whether, in fact, the twilight be of morning or of evening, we find in the masterpieces of such periods a placid calm and chastened pathos, as of a spirit self-withdrawn from vulgar cares, which in the full light of meridian splendour is lacking.
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