The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask...s himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hil...l; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning-loom. There's fancy! There's simile!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silen...cing of misery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference ...to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic... and Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of the ...body to think!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses ...are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »