Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes , which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two.
Değerlendirmeler (0)