The Shadow of a Dream: A StoryHarper & brothers, 1890 - 218 strani |
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Stran 8 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Stran 56 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Stran 8 - The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare;' " and he responded as if it were the strain of a litany: " 'Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair;' " and I spoke: " 'The sunshine is a glorious birth;' " and he responded again : " 'But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed a glory from the earth.' " His voice broke in the last line and faded into a tremulous whisper. It was the youth in both of us, smitten to ecstasy by the beauty of the scene, and pouring...
Stran 51 - How horribly," said Faulkner, as if he had not heard me, "those old flower beds look like graves ! I was going to sit down on one of them, but I can't do it.
Stran 146 - ... whole business, and exasperated by a keen sense of its preposterousness. It seemed to me intolerable that I should be made the victim of it: that this gossamer nothing, which might perhaps accountably involve the lives of those concerned through a morbid conscience, should have power upon me, to drag me a thousand miles away from my family, and subject me to all the chances of danger and death which I must incur, seemed to me atrocious. I spent myself in long imaginary dialogues with my wife,...
Stran 12 - Lynn, where we had board for a few weeks' outing in August, I fell in with Dr. Wingate, the nervous specialist. We were members of the same dining club, and were supposed to meet every month; we really met once or twice during the winter, but then it was a great pleasure to me, and I tried always to get a place next him at table. I found in him, as I think one finds in most intelligent physicians, a sympathy for human suffering unclouded by sentiment, and a knowledge of human nature at once vast...
Stran 77 - Ah, Douglas!" she cried out. He put his hand on her breast and pushed her away with a look of fierce rejection. Then he caught at his own heart; a change, the change that shall come upon every living face, came upon his face. He fell back upon the seat, and his head sank forward. NOTES This excerpt is from William Dean Howells, The Shadow of a Dream (New York: Harper, 1890). 1. George Spangler, " The Shadow of a Dream: Howells' Homosexual Tragedy," American Quarterly 23 (1971): 112.
Stran 57 - I contend for is that we should not throw away 'the long result of time,' and return to the bondage of the superstitions that cursed the childhood of the race, that blackened every joy of its youth, and spread a veil of innocent blood between it and the skies. There may be something in dreams; if there is, our thoughts, not our fears, will find it out. I am a coward, like everybody else ; perhaps rather more of a coward ; but if I had a dream that contained a forecast or a warning of evil, I should...
Stran 140 - I'm ridiculous," she said, nervously. "But I do feel so sorry for that poor creature ! She seems to me like some innocent thing caught in a trap ; and she can't escape, and no one can set her free. I shall begin to believe that there is such a thing as Fate, in that old Greek sense: something that punishes you for your sorrows and for the errors of others." "There is certainly something that does that," I said, "whether we call it Fate or not. We suffer every day for our sorrows, and for the sins...
Stran 34 - Oh! That seems rather simple." "Stuff! You know what I mean. You're the true blue, if you don't begin to fade or change your tone, in the least. If you remain just what you were, and are not anxious to get away. If you have repose, and are unselfish enough to be truly polite. If you make the other woman that you're alone with feel that she's just as well worth while as a man. And that can't be done by saying. Now do you understand ?" "Yes; and it appears difficult.