 ... rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen ! What tenderness and what devotion ; what illimitable confidence ; infinite revelations of inmost thoughts ; what ecstatic present and romantic...  Coningsby, Or, The New Generation - Page 17by Benjamin Disraeli - 1844 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary S. Millar - History - 2006 - 424 pages
...its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing or so keen! ... What earthquakes of the heart and whirlwinds of the...are confined in that simple phrase, a schoolboy's friendship!'67 Although our more knowing age detects homoeroticism in such heightened language and... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 592 pages
...reconciliations; what scenes of wild recrimination, agitating explanations, passionate corrrespondence; w/tat insane sensitiveness and what frantic sensibility;...that simple phrase — a schoolboy's friendship!' Does the Minerva Press groan under the weight of trash more mtolerable than these 'earthquakes of the... | |
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