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When the news came to Tennyson that his friend was gone "That in Vienna's fatal walls God's finger touch'd him, and he slept," for a time joy seemed blotted out of life, and only that he might help to comfort his sister did he wish to live, for "That remorseless iron hour Made cypress of her orange flower, Despair of Hope."
Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it? Ha' you mark'd but the fall o' the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Ben Jonson. Where a ray of light can enter the future, a child's hope can find a way a way that nothing less airy and spiritual can travel. By the time they reached their own door Fleda's spirits were at par again.
For my uncle Toby's amours running all the way in my head, they had the same effect upon me as if they had been my own I was in the most perfect state of bounty and good-will; and felt the kindliest harmony vibrating within me, with every oscillation of the chaise alike; so that whether the roads were rough or smooth, it made no difference; every thing I saw or had to do with, touch'd upon some secret spring either of sentiment or rapture.
What he meant by his belief that four times he had, "whether in the body or out of the body," been united with the Spirit of the world, who knows? What does Tennyson mean when he writes: "So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once it seem'd at last His living soul was flashed on mine.
I was just going, for example, to have given you the great out-lines of my uncle Toby's most whimsical character; when my aunt Dinah and the coachman came across us, and led us a vagary some millions of miles into the very heart of the planetary system: Notwithstanding all this, you perceive that the drawing of my uncle Toby's character went on gently all the time; not the great contours of it, that was impossible, but some familiar strokes and faint designations of it, were here and there touch'd on, as we went along, so that you are much better acquainted with my uncle Toby now than you was before.
I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro' loss of Self The gain of such large life as match'd with ours Were Sun to spark unshadowable in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world." The poet's habit of "Revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself"
A forsaken Woman immediately grows the Object of Derision, rallied by the Men, and pointed at by every little Flirt, who fancies herself secure in her own Charms of never being so, and thinks 'tis want of Merit only makes a Wretch. "For my dear Lord, I am sensible, tho' our Wounds have been a long time heal'd, there yet remains a Tenderness, which, if touch'd, will smart afresh.
He had two Ships well mann'd with resolute Fellows; they now doubled the Cape, and made the South End of Madagascar, and one of the English Men telling Captain Misson, that the European Ships bound for Surat commonly touch'd at the Island of Johanna, he sent for Captain Caracciola on Board, and it was agreed to cruise off that Island.
Pardon me sir, you would not have touch'd her with a pair of tongs, but now, no one knows how, or wherefore she's got into heaven; and is Trimalchio's all in all: In short, if she says it is mid-night at mid-day, he'll believe her.
"Have you seen but a bright Lillie grow Before rude hands have touch'd it?" but desisted at the noise and slewed her body half around, letting her fingers rest on the keys. "Who in the world at this hour?" demanded Miss Quiney. A serving-maid ushered in Manasseh.
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