7 quotes
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Amours de Voyage (1858)
Allah is great, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.
Amours de Voyage (1858)
But for his funeral train which the bridegroom sees in the distance,
Would he so joyfully, think you, fall in with the marriage procession?
Amours de Voyage (1858)
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo,
Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
Amours de Voyage (1858)
Mild monastic faces in quiet collegiate cloisters
Amours de Voyage (1858)
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle,
Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
Amours de Voyage (1858)
I do not like being moved: for the will is excited; and action
Is a most dangerous thing; I tremble for something factitious,
Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process;
We are so prone to these things, with our terrible notions of duty.
Amours de Voyage (1858)