( hidden and revealed )

what a day today must be destined to be ( Read more... )

by this time, the doctor and vendramin, capraja, cataneo, and genovese had made their way to the piazzetta. it was midnight. the glittering bay, outlined by the churches of san giorgio and san paulo at the end of the giudecca, and the beginning of the grand canal, by this time, the doctor and vendramin, capraja, cataneo, and genovese had made their ( Read more... )

"the eternal problem of man," said sir richmond. "can our wills prevail?"

there came a little pause.

miss grammont smiled an enquiry at miss seyffert. "if you are," said belinda.

"i wish i could imagine your world," said miss grammont, rising, "of two hundred and fifty millions of fully developed human beings with room to live and breathe in and no ( Read more... )

the mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast ( Read more... )

plenty of things in real life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain possibilities of poetry.

the band consisted of a fiddle, a clarionet, and a flageolet from the blind asylum. the three were paid seven francs in a lump sum for the night. for the money, they gave us, not beethoven certainly, nor yet rossini; they played as they had the will and the skill; and every one in the room (with charming delicacy of feeling) refrained from finding ( Read more... )

plenty of things in real life are superlatively uninteresting; so that it is one-half of art to select from realities those which contain possibilities of poetry.

to come out of my own ways of life, to be another than myself through a kind of intoxication of the intellectual faculties, and to play this game at will, such was my recreation. whence comes the gift? is it a kind of second sight? is it one of those powers which when abused end in madness? i have never tried to discover its source; i possess it, i ( Read more... )