FINALE.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in...
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
“Le cœur se sature d’amour comme d’un sel divin qui le conserve; de là l’incorruptible adhérence de ceux qui se sont aimés dès l’aube de la vie, et la...
CHAPTER LXXXV.
“Then went the jury out whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr....
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
“Though it be songe of old and yonge, That I sholde be to blame,Theyrs be the charge, that spoke so large In hurtynge of my name.”—The Not-Browne Mayde. § It...
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
“And now good-morrow to our waking soulsWhich watch not one another out of fear;For love all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room, an...
CHAPTER LXXXII.
“My grief lies onward and my joy behind.”—SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets. § Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they...
CHAPTER LXXXI.
Du Erde warst auch diese Nacht beständig,Und athmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füssen,Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben,Du regst und rührst ein kräftiges...
CHAPTER LXXX.
Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wearThe Godhead’s most benignant grace;Nor know we anything so fairAs is the smile upon thy face;Flowers laugh before thee on...
CHAPTER LXXIX.
“Now, I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended their talk, they drew nigh to a very miry slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being...
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
“Would it were yesterday and I i’ the grave,With her sweet faith above for monument.” § Rosamond and Will stood motionless—they did not know how long—he...
CHAPTER LXXVII.
“And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,To mark the full-fraught man and best induedWith some suspicion.”—Henry V. § The next day Lydgate had to go to...
CHAPTER LXXVI.
To mercy, pity, peace, and love All pray in their distress,And to these virtues of delight, Return their thankfulness.. . . . . .For Mercy has a human heart,...
CHAPTER LXXV.
“Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l’ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l’inconstance.”—PASCAL. § Rosamond had a gleam...
CHAPTER LXXIV.
“Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together.”—BOOK OF TOBIT: Marriage Prayer. § In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held...
CHAPTER LXXIII.
Pity the laden one; this wandering woeMay visit you and me. § When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode’s anxiety by telling her that her husband had been...
BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE. CHAPTER LXXII.
Full souls are double mirrors, making stillAn endless vista of fair things before,Repeating things behind. § Dorothea’s impetuous generosity, which would...
CHAPTER LXXI.
Clown. . . . ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed,you have a delight to sit, have you not?Froth. I have so: because it is an open room, and good for...
CHAPTER LXX.
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar,And what we have been makes us what we are.” § Bulstrode’s first object after Lydgate had left Stone Court was to...
CHAPTER LXIX.
“If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee.”—Ecclesiasticus. § Mr. Bulstrode was still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of...
CHAPTER LXVIII.
What suit of grace hath Virtue to put onIf Vice shall wear as good, and do as well?If Wrong, if Craft, if IndiscretionAct as fair parts with ends as...