...th which you tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficul... ...ements which can resuscitate rapture and carry man up to the centre of the luminous sphere where his mind can command the whole universe. Y ou still n... ... the voice of the 64 Massimilla Doni woman who had initiated him into the mysteries of earthly pleasure, for deep dejection made his ears tingle with... ...gues. Get nearer to it, and science warns you that it is not really hot or luminous,—for science is of some use,” he added, looking at Capraja. “Not s...

...ss and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing mo...

...ch seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of our beautiful language, the luminous poesy of the Orient, to you the blame! Did you not command this st... ...reams the burning communications of the Spirit? “Speed thy way through the luminous spheres; behold, ad- mire, hasten! Flying thus thou canst pause or... ...is Love. Am I awake? Do I still sleep? Are these the eyes before which the luminous space retreated further and further indefinitely while the eyes fo... ...a’s salon. The mysterious creature seemed to him the radiating centre of a luminous circle which formed an atmosphere about her wider than that of oth... ...upon my lips, and I myself have become the involun- tary minister of these mysteries. You see me here to-night, for the hundredth time, bruised, defea... ... not elements. In another, he goes in a few words to the heart of magnetic mysteries and de- prives Mesmer of the honors of a first knowledge of them.... ...ds and her brow is strewn with stars; she walks environed with a white and luminous atmosphere; her voice is accompanied by music; she has the gift of... ...d of ideas, let religions accumulate images and be- liefs, revelations and mysteries, you must face at last this ter- rible dilemma and choose between... ...His poem infinite, His love immutable, His science sure and darkened by no mysteries. Be anxious for nothing, He will give you all. Yes, in His heart ...

...tion. I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds. This book, highly approved of in ... ...adiation must have been pro- duced by an agent of great shining power. The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre... ... then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust. Then it moved away two or three miles, leaving a phos- phore... ... dis- pelled by the phosphorescence caused by our movements. I watched the luminous waves that broke over my hand, whose mirror-like surface was spott... .... Our prison was suddenly lighted, that is to say, it became filled with a luminous matter, so strong that I could not bear it at first. In its whiten... .... After shutting my eyes invol- untarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of th... ...e draw- ing-room were opened, and we were never tired of pen- etrating the mysteries of the submarine world. The general direction of the Nautilus was... ...n that Vigo Bay; and it rests with yourself whether you will penetrate its mysteries.” The Captain rose, telling me to follow him. I had had time to r...

...ought of publica- tion. They have gone now, those games, into that vaguely luminous and iridescent into which happiness have tried out again points in... ...coated band plays along the roadway. Contrast this animated scene with the mysteries of sea and forest, rock and whirlpool, in our previous game. Furt...

...ffing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drift- ing up with the tide s... ...jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There’s no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is al... ...ing to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light. The simple old sailor, wit... ... end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrify- 60 Heart of Darkness ing, like a flash of lightning ... ...primeval earth. But both the dia- bolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul satiated... ...g- room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns. The bent gilt legs and backs of the furnitur... ...nic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold. She motioned me to a chair. ...

...love at all. And as for Nettie, she loved, I know, not me but those gentle mysteries. It was not my voice should rouse her dreams to passion… So our l... ... and faint and dim, and over it all the domed serenity of that wonder- ful luminous night. For a little while this realization stunned my mind. My tho... ...the hill, was of a dark compressed life be- neath a very high and wide and luminous evening sky, against which these pit-wheels rose. And ruling the c... ...shortened to nothing, so that it had rather the form of a bellying puff of luminous smoke with an intenser, brighter heart. It rose a hot yellow color... ... abroad; I and my little cracked voice drifted solitary through the silent mysteries. Sometimes I argued as I have told, sometimes I tumbled along in ... ...nd with some wonderful change in its outline, and now with a strange, less luminous, greener disk upon it that grew with its growth, the umbra of the ... ...s heart of brightness out, and at last it would be the whole sky, a sky of luminous green clouds, with a white brightness about the horizon, west and ... ...there in the east, would come again the red discoloring curtain over these mysteries, the finite world again, the gray and growing harsh certainties o... ...deeply into my mind that I verily believe, when at last I face the greater mysteries that lie beyond this life, when the things of this life fade from...

...hem under the forward lug peered the black face of the man whose eyes were luminous in the dark. As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first... ...for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery’s attendant came back again before me with the ... ...t to you! I might have thought. Anyhow, it will give you an inkling of our—mysteries. Whiskey?” “No, thanks; I’m an abstainer.” “I wish I’d been. But ... ...gh a bluish haze a tangle of trees and creepers, and above these again the luminous blue of the sky. Here and there a splash of white or crimson marke... ...flash in his eyes as he glanced at me from the shadow of the trees, a half-luminous colour that van- ished as he turned his head again. He was motionl... ...hed on. The colour vanished from the world. The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted int...

...s, for harmonies, For mastered discords, and the things Not vocable, whose mysteries Are inmost Love’s, Life’s reach of Life extend. Is it an anguish ... ...iew T ranscendent or subdued evoked T o speak the memorable, the true, The luminous as a moon uncloaked; For proof that there, among earth’s dumb, A s...

...walls. But here the masterpieces hang thick, and you seem to see them in a luminous atmosphere of their own. And the great saloons, with their superb ... ...some aw- ful Genius of Doubt and brooding behind his eternal mask upon the mysteries of life. We stood more than once in the little convent chambers w...

...oing, carries them along, rubs them up with one another. He takes from the luminous centre a handful of light, and scatters it broadcast among the dro... ...ar without learning, a juggler hoaxed by himself, an unbelieving priest of mysteries and dogmas, which he ex- pounds all the better for his want of fa...

...an romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise. For what can more partake of the mysteri... ...ay. But why? Is it because they somewhat savor of Holy Writ in its phrase “mysteries of iniquity”? If they do, such savor was far from being intended,... ...from within, though from a different source. The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose- tan in his cheek. In view of the marked contrast between... ... everything but brute Force. 79 Herman Melville Chapter 25 T he night, so luminous on the spar-deck, but other wise on the cavernous ones below, leve... ...vernous ones below, levels so like the tiered galleries in a coal-mine—the luminous night passed away. But, like the prophet in the chariot disappeari...

...phases of civilization? “Is it to this time-honored spirit that we owe the mysteries lying buried in every human word? In the word T rue do we not dis... ...oves the abyss. In childhood, manhood, and old age we are always eager for mysteries in whatever form they present them- selves.” This predilection wa... ...aps this life of purely inward emotions helped him to see something of the mysteries he so entirely believed in! Our independence, our illicit amuseme... ... of his discoveries in magnetism, a sci- ence till then interred under the mysteries of Isis, of Delphi, of the cave of Trophonius, and rediscovered b... ... their truth. The marvelous gifts which the Church of Rome, jealous of all mysteries, punished with the stake, were, in Louis’ opinion, the result of ... ...f strong and energetic; I might become a power; I feel in myself a life so luminous that it might enlighten a world, and yet I am shut up in a sort of... ...ome long excursion in the vast fields of the intellect, and after the most luminous speculations, that I tumble, broken and weary, into this limbo. At...

...yelids in a way to heighten the light of his eye, which glittered with the luminous ferocity of a wolf skulking on the watch in a for- est. Under his ... ... a rigid and fanatical old man, whose duty it was to initiate her into the mysteries of religion. Hard- ened by the severities necessary against heret... ...and took pains to secularize it. She employed Beauvouloir to teach him the mysteries of natural science; she herself super- intended his studies, regu... ...he rocks before some spe- cies of algae, a moss, a seaweed, studying their mysteries; seeking perhaps a rhythm in their fragrant depths, like a bee it... ...contrast so grandly with those of earth, he discovered the meaning of many mysteries. Familiar from his cradle with the infinitude of those liquid fie...

...ell him a secret or two—one of the secrets of form, one of the sacrificial mysteries—though no doubt its career had been literary only in the sense of... ...que young women, but she had the highest confidence in Mrs. Ryves. She was luminous about her being a lady, and a lady who could bring Mrs. Bundy back... ...more, and he asked himself why he should be the sport of her moods and her mysteries. He perceived her knack of punctual interference to be striking, ...

...tion ablaze—if love begins in imagination. But I am no man to discuss such mysteries, and it strikes me that we have neglected poor old Nelson inflati... ...the curtain, with compressed, scheming lips, and no softness at all in her luminous eyes. He could not be allowed to sneak off scot free. Never—never!... ...r the silvery breaks of broad estuaries, under the great 49 Joseph Conrad luminous sky never softened, never veiled, and flooding the earth with the ... ...quat, with her stumpy dark spars naked like dead trees, raised against the luminous sky of that resplendent night, threw a heavy shadow on the lane of...

...en to twenty; and an old gentleman in a blouse, with no teeth to speak of, and a strong country accent. Quite the pick of Origny, I should suppose. Th... ...t be half-wakened by some church spire, by a leap- ing fish, or by a trail of river grass that clung about the paddle and had to be plucked off and th... ..., I look for my indulgence on the spot. 87 The Inland V oyage % # ! E MADE PRECY ABOUT SUNDOWN. The plain is rich with tufts o...

...ns burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering ... ...e something else.’ ‘But why? But why?’ she insisted, bending her wonderful luminous face to him. ‘Why isn’t it enough?’ ‘Because we can go one better,... ...faintly bright in the light of the lantern, and they stood together in one luminous union, close together and ringed round with light, all the rest ex... ...e boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as be climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to ... ... side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as be climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft—ah, t... ... abhorrent to them both. They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. ‘How many scratches have you?’ he asked, showing his hard forear... ... after the death of the creative spirit. He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mind- less, dreadful mysteries, far beyo... ...nly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. There was another way, the way of free- dom. There was ... ...onviction, suckled in a creed outworn, and condemned to the reiteration of mysteries that were not divine to her. Yet there was no escape. She was a l...

...ignoire, with the gaze of a neophyte about to be initiated into the sacred mysteries. Darrow placed himself behind her, that he might catch her profil... ... rooms each holding its sepa- rate secret. The nearness of all these other mysteries enclosing theirs gave Darrow a more intimate sense of the girl’s ... ...ng her for a few minutes Miss Summers perceived that she had somehow grown luminous, perilous, obscurely menacing to nice girls and the young men they... ...liding in emerald streaks along the tree-boles, gathered itself into great luminous blurs at the end of the wood-walks, and hung above the fields a wa... ... she walked at Darrow’s side her imagination flew back and forth, spinning luminous webs of feeling between herself and the scene about her. Every hei... ...its harmonious length, the soberness of its lines softened to grace in the luminous misty air. Darrow stood still, and Anna felt that his glance was t... ...en them, yet seeing them through a kind of radiance, as though love were a luminous medium into which she had been bodily plunged. She was glad now th... ...me when she had feared to look life in the face, and had been blind to the mysteries and contradictions of the human heart because her own had not bee...

...he light; and the houses, dark, silent, impenetrable as they seem, hide no mysteries. Life is almost wholly in the open air; every household sits at i... ...ove anything,” said Monsieur des Grassins; “the old miser is always making mysteries.” “Des Grassins, my friend, I have invited the young man to dinne... ...t- est noise, now lost its decaying aspect in the eyes of Eugenie. It grew luminous; it had a voice and spoke to her; it was young like herself, —youn... ...l. You ought to kiss me on the eyelids for telling you the secrets and the mysteries of the life and death of money. Yes, silver and gold live and swa... ...prayer seemed to purify her and refine those homely features and make them luminous. Who has not seen the phenomenon of a like transfiguration on sacr... ..., through religion, through faith in the future. Love explained to her the mysteries of eternity. Her heart and the Gospel taught her to know two worl... ...ll, I am delighted; she is a good girl. But,” added Charles, struck with a luminous idea, “she must be rich?” “She had,” said the president, with a mi...

...scope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenom- ena. It was a ha... ...lled Paris and the Seine and the warm, overcast evening and the beautiful, luminous organisation of the War Control…. She drew herself a little way up... ...ontact of the two forces. I saw it quite plainly in silhouette against the luminous blue of the northern sky. The allied aeroplanes—they were mostly F... ... sky would be searched by scores of lights, and the admirable Leblanc gave luminous reasons for their camping just where they were and going on with t... ...ly exaggerated by the accidents of po- litical separation. This now became luminously plain. An enormous proportion of the force that sustained armame... ...square miles of ocean no ship ever traversed except by mischance. Into the mysteries of the solid globe under his feet he had not yet pierced for five...