Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent..., without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;... The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;... Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed wit...h fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vines of her arms didn't cling to the ends of his clothes,... or did she plant herself in the doorway, hurl herself at his feet, or utter the word "Stay!" But as that fool began to go at the time when it was dark with swarming clouds, the slim girl blocked her lover's way with only a rising river made with her flood of tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Expecting me to grovel, she carefully covers both feet... with the hem of her skirt. She pretends to hide a coming smile and won't look straight at me. When I talk to her, she chats with her friend in cross tones. Even this slim girl's rising anger delights me, let alone her deep love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »