 Our senses may captivate us with beauty ; but in absence we forget, or by reason we can conquer so superficial an impression. Our vanity may enamour us with rank ; but the affections of vanity are traced in sand : but who can love Genius, and not feel...  Falkland - Page 29by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1830 - 97 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 264 pages
...Falkland without feeling that from that moment a separate and selfish existence had ceased to Ije. Our senses may captivate us with beauty ; but in absence...partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality 'f It arouses, concentrates, engrosses all our emotions, even to the most subtle and concealed. Love... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 382 pages
...nature, only heard in her solitudes. Our senses may captivate us with beauty, but in absence we can forget or by reason we can conquer so superficial...affections of vanity are traced in sand; but who can love genins and not feel that the sentiments it excites partake of its own in. tenseness and its own immortality?... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 376 pages
...nature, only heard in her solitudes. Our senses may captivate us with beauty, but in absence we can forget or by reason we can conquer so superficial...partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality? Signed "DP MADISON." When toward the close of her own life she had known sorrow, she was often known... | |
 | Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 650 pages
...her solitudes. Our senses may captivate us with beauty, but in absence we can forget or by reason \ve can conquer so superficial an impression; our vanity...partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality? Signed "DP MADISON." When toward the close of her own life she had known sorrow, she was often known... | |
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