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| 86acad1 | He met indeed many accomplished and amiable ecclesiastics, but it seemed to him that the more thoughtful among them had either acquired their peace of mind at the cost of a certain sensitiveness, or had taken refuge in a study of the past, as the early hermits fled to the desert from the disorders of Antioch and Alexandria. None seemed disposed to face the actual problems of life, and this attitude of caution or indifference had produced a .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bd81ee8 | Toward Florence he was specially drawn by the fact that Alfieri now lived there; but, as often happens after such separations, the reunion was a disappointment. Alfieri, indeed, warmly welcomed his friend; but he was engrossed in his dawning passion for the Countess of Albany, and | Edith Wharton | ||
| f2cf5b1 | Whether by this he meant the clergy I know not; though I observed he spoke favourably of that body in France, pointing out that, long before the recent agitations, they had defended the civil rights of the Third Estate, and citing many cases in which the country curates had shown themselves the truest friends of the people: a fact my own observation hath confirmed. I remarked to him that I was surprised to find how little talk there was in .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 461fdd9 | The columns of the Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages. Fresh from his talk with Crescenti, Odo lingered curiously | Edith Wharton | ||
| 54d41b8 | The young man had not been long at Donnaz without discovering that in that little world of crystallised traditions the chaplain was the only person conscious of the new forces abroad. It had never occurred to the Marquess that anything short of a cataclysm such as it would be blasphemy to predict could change the divinely established order whereby the territorial lord took tithes from his peasantry and pastured his game on their crops. The .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2dae604 | Her incapacity to recognise change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his; | Edith Wharton | ||
| 61ff8ab | He had known moments of happiness since; moments when he believed in himself and in his calling, and felt himself indeed the man she thought him. That was in the exaltation of the first months, when his opportunities had seemed as boundless as his dreams, and he had not yet learned that the sovereign's power may be a kind of spiritual prison to the man. Since then, indeed, he had known another kind of happiness, had been aware of a secret v.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 74c85a6 | What are the Italians of today but men tricked out in women's finery, when they should be waiting full-armed to rally at the first signal of revolt? Oh, for the day when a poet shall arise who dares tell them the truth, not disguised in sentimental frippery, not ending in a maudlin reconciliation of love and glory -- but the whole truth, naked, cold and fatal as a patriot's blade; a poet who dares show these bedizened courtiers they are no .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4a5a888 | stremlenie, kotorym on kogda-to gordilsia, zhit' nastoiashchim momentom i pol'zovat'sia liubym predostavliaiushchimsia shansom -- teper' meshalo emu deistvovat'. On nachal ponimat', chto nikogda, dazhe buduchi v tesneishikh otnosheniiakh s zhizn'iu, ne zagliadyval dal'she siiuminutnogo udovol'stviia. On schital, chto eto prekrasno -- umet' v polnoi mere naslazhdat'sia momentom, a ne prenebregat' im v pogone za chem-to bol'shim ili inym, na .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cf07ec0 | that were to drive us to the port to | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9999a0b | Vse te neznakomtsy i neznakomki, kotorym ona ulybalas' mimokhodom, na kotorykh ogliadyvalas' s zavist'iu, byli svobodny ot potrebnostei, raboi kotorykh byla ona, i oni ne poniali by, o chem ona tolkuet, esli by ona rasskazala im, kak mnogo ei nuzhno deneg na plat'ia, na sigarety, na bridzh, i ekipazhi, i chaevye, i prochie dopolnitel'nye raskhody i chto kak raz seichas ona dolzhna byla by bezhat' nazad, na obed v britanskom posol'stve, gde .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1491ad9 | Vlast' veshchei, bez kotorykh, kak vsem nam kazhetsia, mozhno oboitis'. Chelovecheskie privychki prochnei egipetskikh piramid. Udobstva, roskosh', atmosfera svobody... a prevyshe vsego vozmozhnost' izbezhat' skuki i monotonnosti, ogranichennosti i urodstva... ...eto vse veshchi neprekhodiashchie, neobkhodimye prezhde vsego. (Strefford - Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| a9a3db9 | zamysly dolzhny sozret', - novye vpechatleniia redko prinosiat nemedlennyi rezul'tat. (Greis Falmer - Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| e345993 | If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and fatal passions, were really on the side of the angels, were fighting the battle of the spiritual against the sensual, of conscience against appetite. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ed826c5 | Vmesto vozmozhnoi zavisimosti, vynuzhdennogo vozvrata k prezhnei zhizni, sostoiashchei iz kompromissov i ustupok, ona uvidela pered soboi -- kogda reshit vybrat' ikh -- svobodu, silu i dostoinstvo. ...kotoroe v takom mire, kak ikh mir, mogut obespechit' lish' bogatstvo i polozhenie v obshchestve. (Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| b94bcf4 | Donnaz and kept him there a whole summer adorning the banqueting-room. "But I advise you, little master," Bruno added, "not to talk too loudly of your discovery; for we live in changed days, do you see, and it seems those are pagan sorcerers and witches painted on the wall, and because of that, and their nakedness, the chaplain has forbidden all the young boys and wenches about the place to set foot there; and the Marchioness herself, I'm t.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| af97434 | O, blagoslovennaia nravstvennaia svoboda, kotoruiu daruet bogatstvo! | Edith Wharton | ||
| f1b8b26 | esli chelovek otkazyvaet sebe vo vsem, eto otravliaet ego zdorov'e i kharakter. (Elli Vanderlin - Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7a5b0e6 | Po pravde skazat', v eio zhizni s Falmerami ne bylo ni minuty pokoia, no vsia eta sumatokha kazalas' Siuzi menee bessmyslennoi i potomu menee utomitel'noi, chem sueta, kotoroi soprovozhdalos' sushchestvovanie liudei vrode Oltringema, Ursuly Dzhillou, Elli Vanderlin i ikh svity... (O Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0395589 | eio... pamiat' ne sootvetstvovala shirote eio interesov. (O missis Khiks) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 55df04e | Her departure left no traces but were speedily repaired by the coming of spring. The sun growing warmer, and the close season putting an end to the Marquess's hunting, it was now Odo's chief pleasure to carry his books to the walled garden between the castle and the southern face of the cliff. This small enclosure, probably a survival of medieval horticulture, had along the upper ledge of its wall a grass walk commanding the flow of the str.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4af953b | These personages, grouped about the toilet-table where the Countess sat under the hands of a Parisian hairdresser, were picturesquely relieved against the stucco panelling and narrow mirrors of the apartment, with its windows looking on a garden set with mossy statues. To Odo, however, the scene suggested the most tedious part of his day's routine. The compliments to be exchanged, the silly verses to be praised, the gewgaws from Paris to be.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2b2c1bc | What more she said, or what de Crucis answered, he could never afterward recall. He had a confused sense of having cried out a last unavailing protest, faintly, inarticulately, like a man struggling to make himself heard in a dream; then the room grew dark about him, and in its stead he saw the old chapel at Donnaz, with its dimly-gleaming shrine, and heard the voice of the chaplain, harsh and yet strangely shaken:-- "My chief prayer for yo.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6277c68 | bogatye bezdel'niki, deiatel'nyi narod, kotoryi, za neimeniem zaniatii, beskonechno kruzhil po svetu, gonimyi nevest' kakim zudom. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 084c9ad | Uvy, tol'ko zamuzhestvom po merkam etogo mira ona mogla dobit'sia nezavisimosti ot nego zhe. (O Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0030253 | Women ought to be free--as free as we are," he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences." -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 31414b6 | seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He | Edith Wharton | ||
| ced3243 | Yesterday her fancy had fluttered free pinions above a choice of occupations; now she had to drop to the level of the familiar routine, in which moments of seeming brilliancy and freedom alternated with long hours of subjection. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1544e4a | Outside the gates the spectacle seemed tame in comparison; for the road bent toward Pontesordo, and Odo was familiar enough with the look of the bare fields, set here and there with oak-copses to which the leaves still clung. As the carriage skirted the marsh his mother raised the windows, exclaiming that they must not expose themselves to the pestilent air; and though Odo was not yet addicted to general reflections, he could not but wonder.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 69552dc | The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ab91678 | Problema s priniatymi sgoriacha resheniiami v tom, chto na drugoe utro obychno sam ne znaesh', k chemu vsio eto... | Edith Wharton | ||
| 59cbc2a | She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0010704 | Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance; can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly? | Edith Wharton | ||
| fefe25d | Don't judge us too harshly--or not, at least, till you have taken the trouble to learn our point of view. You consider the individual--we think only of the family. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 767b735 | But, my dear, it's just the fugitiveness of mortal caring that makes it so exquisite! It's because we know we can't hold fast to it, or to each other, or to anything... | Edith Wharton | ||
| c828d38 | That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1fcbdb6 | This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something. | Sierra Simone | ||
| 33e7ac8 | For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece? The new game was still played with the old counters, the new jugglers repeated the old tricks; and the very words now poured out in defence of the new cause were but mercenaries scarred in the service of its enemies. For generations, for centuri.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| db80529 | The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2c4b56c | After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles," he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4636f4b | Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 100086c | Newland never seems to look ahead," Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: "No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book." | Edith Wharton | ||
| ae4a40c | But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided. If Undine, like the lilies of the field, took no care, it was not because her wants were as few but because she assumed that care would be taken for her by those whose privilege it was to enable her to unite floral insouciance with Sheb.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0d3e2f1 | Meanwhile the old Marquess, visibly moved, was charging Odo to respect his elders and superiors, while in the same breath warning him not to take up with the Frenchified notions of the court, but to remember that for a lad of his condition the chief virtues were a tight seat in the saddle, a quick hand on the sword and a slow tongue in counsel. "Mind your own business," he concluded, "and see that others mind theirs." The Marchioness thereu.. | Edith Wharton |