To illustrate the intensity of the pleasure he found alike in the solitude of his study and in the relaxations of genial social intercourse, almost any page taken at random, either from the Life or from the Letters, would suffice; and many incidental touches show that he was not a stranger to the delights of quiet contemplation of the beauties and grandeurs of nature. [Please select]
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He was not excited by the new grandeurs of his position and he was not ashamed of himself. [Please select]
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In the country he would be easier to manage than in town, especially if attacked in his first timidity before his new grandeurs. [Please select]
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The forest was a great treadmill in which men toiled all day, only to be surrounded at night by the same grandeurs and littlenesses they had that morning left. [Please select]
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Worse still, they've got to go back to their wives, who haven't shared their grandeurs, but who've played the game by them, taking care of their children and standing by the wash-tub. [Please select]
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The frugal Frenchman, thrifty in his expenditures and free from social ambitions, smiled at the grandeurs of his brother-in-law. [Please select]
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We were soon so absorbed in gathering the latter that we were quite oblivious of the grandeurs about us. [Please select]
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As you must know, the delusion of vast wealth--the folly of grandeurs, I believe our friends the French call it--is, as a rule, persistent, to the exclusion of all others. [Please select]
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It is unprofitable to follow on into the grandeurs of Louis XIV, if one hopes to find an advance there in truth-telling architecture. [Please select]
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"Those grave eyes look at our London grandeurs with a meek wonder, something as thy namesake an angel might look upon the splendours of Babylon." [Please select]
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