Sublime

dross

ameliorate

Sur le plus grand des fragments, je lus ces phrases où je reconnus le dialogue du Banquet dans lequel Aristophane expose sa conception de l'amour : « Quand donc un homme, qu'il soit porté sur les garçons ou sur les femmes, rencontre celui-là même qui est sa moitié, c'est un prodige que les transports de tendresse, de confiance et d'amour dont ils s

I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough

Lydgate could only say, ‘Poor, poor darling!’ but he secretly wondered over the terrible tenacity of this mild creature. There was gathering within him an amazed sense of his powerlessness over Rosamond. His superior knowledge and mental force, instead of being, as he had imagined, a shrine to consult on all occasions, was simply set aside on every

a young creature who had known nothing but indulgence, and whose dreams had all been of new indulgence, more exactly to her taste.