Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II.

"The Earth is the _cul-de-sac_ in the great city of God,--the camera obscura full of inverted and contracted images from a fairer world,--the coast of God's creation,--a vaporou...

With emotion I draw aside from Victor's distracted, irrecognizable face the veil which covers his sorrows. Let us look upon thee, disconsolate man, who art going to meet a sprin...

When Matthieu saw the parsonage coachman and the hired lackey of the Englishmen, the bellows-blower Zeusel,--the twin-brother of the Apothecary,--he devised something which I wi...

"Matthieu would long since have got farther on with his propositions of marriage had he had his present prospects (of--an adulterous act) nearer before him. Perhaps, too, Matthi...

When he had given his cold answer about the promotion of Joachime,--a coldness which formed a flattering contrast to his present enthusiastic warmth and fulness of feeling for t...

However, it turned out gloriously. But, by Heaven! the world should for once perceive (after the printing of this book) that a carp of four pounds--so long fed in the fish-box,...

Clotilda, who with her female friends overheard the funeral oration in the adjoining chamber, at first held them back beseechingly from opening it. But when Victor said, "Cold f...

He thought the opposite again, when he stood behind her on the sleigh. The night seemed to have withdrawn behind the clouds, whose wide arch occupied the heavens. He could not h...

And unfortunately warm-blooded and soft-skinned excellent men are just the ones least remarkable for steadiness and moderation in bearing the poetical sorrows which authors send...

He told her right out plainly what he was,--a fool. He narrated the whole business in Kussewitz. He concluded by saying that it was lucky for him that the Princess had not at al...

"O, if an inhabitant of earth had in a dream gone through Elysium; if great unknown flowers had waved above him; if a saint had handed him one of these flowers with the words, '...

After the evacuation of the Evangelist,--when he had done scolding at himself for letting him find the crape hat, which, in fact, he would have kept more concealed if Flamin had...

Who would have thought it of Cicero (if he had not read it) that a man of so many years and so much sense would sit down in his St. John's Island, and manufacture _beginnings_,...

"--Take ten men, shut them up in ten different islands: neither of them (I have not selected cosmopolites) will love or defend either of the others, if he meets him in his canoe...

And this is just my excuse, if I deny the Maienthal domain of joy to a thousand rival claimants, if I as its fee-provost cannot invest with this Swabian reversionary fief such p...

Meanwhile he mastered himself at least so far as to go out with his twin-brothers of the heart into the Colosseum of Nature, although he did not conceal from himself that he sho...

And with such a love, beating like a heart in his innermost consciousness, Victor with his two friends arrived up at the convent. The Abbess (her name is not reported to me at a...

Victor had hardly run out into the wet grass of the morning, when he came upon the Englishman with his head under the sprinkling-pots of the water-wheels. He gladly forgave this...

Victor went off, in order to conceal an emotion through which he too much heightened another's. But on his far and near ways among tones and blossoms, feelings clung to him whic...

The sun sank lower, the moon mounted higher,--Victor saw Clotilda, like an ethereally embodied angel, reclining in a niche that opened towards the west,--the little girl mention...

Thirdly, I know nothing by which I can see more clearly my future reviewer's perplexity for want of _materia peccans_ to censure, than this, that he sticks to such pitiful trifl...

He appeared now on the war-theatre of souls, of which one seldom catches an exact map, the court;--to his heart, filled with paradises, even the apartments seemed like glass cas...

We readers will, with Victor, take leave of the Chamberlain, who, with his half upright eyebrows,--they incline to each other at the bridge of the nose in the form of the mathem...

Emanuel was more quiet and almost troubled, but it was not the anxiety of fear, but that uneasiness of expectation with which we always look upon the folds and flutterings of th...

He sighed and wondered that he sighed. He leaned down on the pearl-glistening hill of flowers, with his back to the beloved shadows and his eyes towards the kindling dawn, and g...

I confess, in the very first chapter it struck me singularly that Victor should be a physician; now it is explained; for the medical doctor's hat was the best Montgolfier[159] a...

I am concerned lest it should be thought that Matthieu imputes to a Chamberlain, especially one with whom making and keeping a promise were the most distant cousins, less full-p...

"The Chaplain had the peculiarity of many people, that, in the midst of the choir of joys and visits, he thought on his most trifling employments; e. g., on the wedding day, of...

--"Seest thou my father?" said the blind Julius, and his face approached a smile of rapture. Victor started and said, "I talk with him, but I do not see him."--But this checked...

The page appeared again. January had allayed the sweet paternal ebullition at the news, since he had heretofore given up all his children for lost. He desired now the proof that...

And the same morning, this son, our Victor, was _not_ happy. It seemed to him, at the report of Flamin's discharge and of Matthieu's officiousness, as if he heard the hissing an...

I wish the villain would never step into my biographical writing-chamber and _casa santa_ again; he is conscious of so many immoral resources, that, in the feeling of strength t...

So soon as he knew this, he left me to travel on alone, under my tin bee-cap and Moses's veil, and hurried forward to the Prince just one minute before it was too late. For Matt...

"I write it last, in order that it may not be read first. I will here leave the world free again, after I have had it in my service barely 2 hours 33 minutes and 36 seconds long...

Page 141, 2d note.--The meaning seems to be, that strips of gold-foil were hung up to flutter round and frighten the birds, just as our farmers hang up strips of tin for scarecr...

[Footnote 94: _Mummies_,--one of the titles of the "Invisible Lodge," given in allusion to mixing up of serious and jocose scenes and ideas, as the Egyptians introduced a skelet...