Sublime

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r

We exchanged a few words lazily. Afterwards there was silence on board the yacht. For some reason or other we did not begin that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring.

The secret of this ultimate tragedy of adventure is psychological; it hides in the nature of the adventurer’s motive, swinish and god-like. It is interwoven in his personality. For this greed they have in all their five senses, for gold, for power, for vainglory, for curiosity, even at their highest moments, the greed for life itself, is dual. It c

poings. Inculte, sachant à peine écrire, ce qu'il cachait sous une emphase verbale intolérable, et des phrases toutes faites, habilement choisies, il avait pourtant été le premier à comprendre Morel et le véritable enjeu de l'affaire : voilà qui prouve bien une étrange fraternité. Peut-être avaient-ils tous les deux la même obsession profonde et la

As Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Coen was destined to become his lifelong adversary.

This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way,—the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

Apart from his dinners and his coursing, Mr Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we