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Updated: May 19, 2025
It is in passages of this temper that Virgil wins us most, when he speaks for himself and for his age, so distant, and so weary, and so modern; when his own thought, unborrowed and unforced, is wedded to the music of his own unsurpassable style.
They ate to-day, starved to-morrow; but they were rich because they loved, because they laughed, because theirs was the passionate unforced comradeship, the intoxicating joy of youth. Peter Champneys, whose good luck was being celebrated, looked at his penniless, hilarious comrades, and twisted a smile of desperate gaiety to his lips. He had never in his life felt more utterly alone.
Their hilarity was loud, but not unforced. Here, too, philosophising and prophecy were in evidence. "There is not going to be any Last Judgment to-day," said a young man, who looked as though he were a descendant of the Emperor Nero. "Anyhow, if it comes, death cannot introduce us to anything worse than we have had in life." "It has always seemed to me that we are in hell.
By a strong yet simple gesture she checked him. "You scarcely realize what you are asking, Graydon," she said, gravely. "I have no doubt your present emotion is unforced and sincere, but it requires time to prove earnestness. You were equally sure you were in earnest a short time since, and I had little place, comparatively, in your thoughts." "But I did not know you then as I do now."
They led the men in their wild revel pagans absolute. One in particular attracted Done; she was tall, dark-eyed, and black-haired. This, in conjunction with the bold combination of red and black in her costume, gave him the belief that she was Spanish. There was about her some suggestion of character and strength that pleased him. She romped like a child; her merriment was clean and unforced.
To be compelled by love and by the fear of failing in it is self-compulsion, and self-compulsion, it will be seen in what follows, is not contrary to freedom and rationality. It is plain then what forced worship and unforced worship are like.
I have seen him stand bare-headed smile if you please to a poor servant girl, while she has been inquiring of him the way to some street in such a posture of unforced civility, as neither to embarrass her in the acceptance, nor himself in the offer, of it.
If he tries to start out a holy emotion, he finds a sinful emotion already beating and rankling, and this emotion is his emotion, unforced, responsible, and guilty. There is no physical necessity resting upon him. Nothing but this love of sin and inclination to self stands in the way of a supreme love of God and holiness; but it stands in the way.
The only unforced explanation was that suggested by the newspaper writers that she left them behind on purpose to blind people as to her escape, a motive which would have clashed with the possibility of her being fished back by an advertisement, as the present woman had been. Again, there were the two charred bones.
A time may come, too, when the ideal of an unforced harmony in architectural groupings may replace the now dominant instinct of aggressive diversity. But whatever developments the future may have in store, I must own my gratitude to the "fierce individualism" of the present for a new realisation of the possibilities of architectural beauty in modern life.
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