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At first it appeared to us that Mr. Keats had been amusing himself and wearying his readers with an immeasurable game at bouts rimés; but, if we recollect rightly, it is an indispensable condition at this play that the rhymes, when filled up, shall have a meaning; and our author, as we have already hinted, has no meaning.
He spoke of it to his wife and thought of it long after, for he, too, had come toward the little group a bit impatient, it must be owned, of the general's mellow monologue, and wearying of a conversation in which he had no part. But here again Stannard found scant opportunity. Miss Archer, bending slightly forward, was, with much animation describing to Mr.
Wearying of this sport, we embarked in canoes, fishing or sailing, and many small adventures we had, for the younger and more daring spirits delighted in scaring me into expostulation or the silence of the condemned and then saving my life by a hair's-breadth.
But you will find great love in your Work, and for your Work; and though it all vanishes at once you will experience so wonderful a joy that it will seem as if, night and day, God is whispering the secrets of life in your ear." "What is the Work like?" asked Andy. "Would you be willing to try it? Remember, it is difficult and wearying and is dead as soon as it is born."
Heaven we might hope to reach upon the wings of spirit when we died, but to that country how could we come? We watched that great moon climb higher and higher up a ladder of little bar-like clouds, till wearying we let our eyes fall upon the glittering pathway which its light made upon the bosom of the placid sea. Suddenly Kari stared and stared. "What is it?" I asked idly.
Nothing could be more wearying than the everlasting daylight that surrounded me not bright and sunshiny, but dreary and lead-colored, showing scarcely any perceptible difference between morning, noon, and night. The coffee soon came to my relief, and the pastor followed it to wish me a good appetite and ask if I wanted any thing else.
The horses of both my dragoman and muleteer fell on this trip, but without serious results to either horses or riders. It was quite wearying to proceed thus, so when we finally reached a large sloping rock under which was a kind of stagnant pool the only water we had seen since leaving Coefrinje I was glad to know that there we would lunch, even though I could not drink of the water.
Edies Ochiltrees, who it is you put off your gibes and your jests upon?" "Brawly, Mr. Dusterdeevil brawly do I ken ye, and has done mony a day; but there's nae jesting in the case, for I am wearying to see ae our treasures; we should hae had baith ends o' the pockmanky filled by this time I hope it's bowk eneugh to haud a' the gear?"
I returned to my room, and was glad to be once more alone, for although I bore up well under the circumstances, still the compressed excitement was wearying to the frame. I had resolved to accept the offer of Madame Bathurst at the time that she made it, but I did not choose to appear to jump at it, as she probably expected that I would.
The proposed study which you ought to bestow upon the movements, the actions, the gestures, the looks of your wife, will be perhaps troublesome and wearying, but it will not last long; the only point is to discover when your wife and her lover correspond and in what way.
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