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With Savonarola fasts were succeeded by trances, and trances by tempests of vehement improvization.
If I examine all parts of this globe, I see the uncivilized as well as the civilized man in a perpetual struggle with Providence; he is compelled to ward off the blows which it sends in the form of hurricanes, tempests, frost, hail, inundations, sterility, and the divers accidents which so often render all their labors useless.
This discovery raised such tempests of jealousy and despair within his breast, that he kept me in continual alarm. He sent messages to me every hour, signed his letters with his own blood, raved like a man in ecstasy of madness, railed at my ingratitude, and praised my conduct by turns.
An evening when the fiery sun forebodes a stormy morning, and the black-based clouds rise, like mountains with hoary tops, to tell me tempests are brewing! These give emotion and delight supreme! Oh for a mistress such as I could imagine, and such as Anna St. Ives moulded by me could make! One that could vary her person, her pleasures, and her passions, purposely to give mine variety!
It is curious to see how well she knows the difference between us and the nurses. There are great tempests upstairs, and her papa takes them very much to heart. He always has her downstairs when he is at home; and he has accustomed her to so much attention, that there is no doing anything while she is by, or I would have her more with me. The self-justifying tone rather puzzled Miss King.
Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero. Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless. They arrived at Bath.
But, gentles, an' ye know the delicate fibre of woman's heart, ye will not in very sooth believe that such events as those we have described such tempests of passion fierce winds of woe blinding lightnings of tremendous joy and tremendous grief could pass over one frail flower and leave it all unscathed. No! Grief kills as joy doth.
At last he sees her moving with all her wonted grace, He sees her and he hastens to their old trysting-place; For as the moon when night is dark and clouds of tempest fly Rises behind the dim-lit wood and lights the midnight sky, Or like the sun when tempests with inky clouds prevail, He merges for one moment and shows his visage pale; So Zaida on her balcony in gleaming beauty stood, And the knight for a moment gazed at her and checked his angry mood.
Colgar the valiant lives, and Annira, fairest maid. The boughs of thy house ascend, O Carmor! but Armin is the last of his race. Dark is thy bed, O Daura! deep thy sleep in the tomb! When shalt thou wake with thy songs? with all thy voice of music? "Arise, winds of autumn, arise: blow along the heath. Streams of the mountains, roar; roar, tempests in the groves of my oaks!
Let nature breathe around you like a lovely idyl, where far from artifice and its wanderings you may always find yourself again, where you may go to draw fresh courage, a new confidence, to resume your course, and kindle again in your heart the flame of the ideal, so readily extinguished amidst the tempests of life.
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