[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER IX 10/28
Yes, I won't forget: you preach against the despising of anything. This was pleasant in Woodseer's ears, inasmuch as it established the young nobleman as the pupil of his philosophy for the conduct of life; and to fortify him, he replied: 'Set your mind on the beauty, and there'll be no room for comparisons. Most of them are unjust, precious few instructive.
In this case, they spoil both pictures: and that scene down there rather hooks me; though I prefer the Dachstein in the wane of the afterglow.
You called it Carinthia.' 'I did: the beautiful Gorgon, haggard Venus--if she is to be a girl!' Fleetwood rejoined.
'She looked burnt out--a spectre.' 'One of the admirably damned,' said Woodseer, and he murmured with enjoyment: 'Between the lights--that 's the beauty and the tragedy of Purgatory!' His comrade fell in with the pictured idea: 'You hit it:--not what you called the "sublimely milky," and not squalid as you'll see the faces of the gambling women at the tables below.
Oblige me--may I beg ?--don't clap names on the mountains we've seen.
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