爱(2)
for though the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age, and although a beauty overpo all analysis or comparison, and putting us quite beside ourselves, e fact; it may seem to many men, in revising their experience, that they have no fairer page in their life’s book than the delicious memory of the same passages ive a the deep attraction of its o backs roping memory than the charm itself h beautiful, is only one scene in our play. in the procession of the soul from es its circle forever, like the pebble throht proceeding from an orb. the rays of the soul alight first on things nearest. but things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laing for harmony betressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later, and the step backher to the loht in endearments, in avoards. e of the other. does that other see the same star, the same melting cloud, read the same book, feel the same emotion, that noht me? they try and h their affection, and, adding up costly advantages, friends, opportunities, properties, exult to discovering that ly, joyfully, they ive all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head, not one hair of er, sorro a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects, and disproportion in the behaviour of the other. yet that ns of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, hoard changes, quits the sign, and attaches to the substance. this repairs the ame of permission and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to employ all the resources of each, and acquaint each th and ht to be knoly ht into the texture of man, of an.
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