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He was a grave, thoughtful faced man, with just a dash of grey on his temples, and a listless air of world-weariness, that made him look beyond his years; for he was only twenty-eight; and yet he had had a vigorous cuffing from the reed-shaken hand of Fortune, and had come to regard himself with a sort of pitying disapprobation, such as falls upon us when we know we have a duty to perform, yet think it too great, and hesitate between self-condolence and accusation.
No vain longing fills her heart, no feverish unrest disturbs her dreams, for her no crouching fear haunts the passing hours that ineffable smile which plays around her mouth says plainly that life is good. And yet the circles about the eyes and the drooping lids hint of world-weariness, and speak the message of Koheleth and say, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
Indeed, his whole life was a protest against the subtleties of the Talmudists and the ceremonies, meaningless to him, which they introduced into Judaism. He was primarily a man of action, and had little love for the rabbis, their passivity, world-weariness, and pride of intellect. Men like these, who study the Law for the sake of knowing, not of feeling, cannot claim any merit for it.
Sickness of the king. A surgical operation necessary. World-weariness of the king. Dissatisfied with Versailles. The royal palaces unsatisfactory. The "hermitage" at Marly. War with Germany. The dauphin in command. Devastation of the Palatinate. Designs upon England. Civil war in France. Complications of the royal family.
lines in which we already take leave of the genuine love of the pastoral life, springing from an intimate knowledge of and delight in nature, and see world-weariness arraying itself in the sentimental garb of the imaginary swain.
They are the happiest who have the least; and the fable of the stricken king and the shirtless beggar contains the germ of truth. The wise hold all earthly ties very lightly they are stripping for eternity. World-weariness is only a desire for a better spiritual condition. There is more to be written on this subject of world-pain to exhaust the theme would require a book.
His old intimate smile, his disturbing ironic glance, even the quickening of his first passive interest into the emotional curiosity which was the strongest impulse his world-weariness had left alive each and all of these effects which she remembered impressed her as little to-day as did the bulky fascination of Perry Bridewell.
A depressing sense of world-weariness sometimes overbore the native joyousness of his temperament; and he expressed his sense of deep gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the race because he had brought death into the world. A funeral always gave Mark Twain a sense of spiritual uplift, a sense of thankfulness because the dead friend had been set free.
The contents, indeed, our heroine had not found uninteresting, and she turned now to the subject with a flutter of anticipation. He looked at her intently, almost boldly, she thought, and before she dropped her eyes she had made a discovery. The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair.
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