So when Langwidere sat in her easy chair and played soft melodies upon her mandolin, her form was mirrored hundreds of times, in walls and ceiling and floor, and whichever way the lady turned her head she could see and admire her own features.
But I wish you may have success in your undertaking, for I am heartily tired of ruling this stupid kingdom, and I need more leisure in which to admire my beautiful heads.
Very soon, now, my fun will be over, and then for amusement I shall have nothing to do but admire my new ornaments.
She is a very vain creature, and lives mostly in a room surrounded by mirrors, so that she can admire herself whichever way she looks.
We admire the anatomy and poise of the Greek statues, but they are not humanly interesting.
The Charms of Imperfection* For a long time I have held a stubborn belief that I should admire and aim at perfection.
You may still enjoy and admire the possessions of others, but the ineffable bore of ownership will keep you content.
It is the boast of people who profess to admire the common law, that it adapts itself to human events, and that no situation or no new form of industry can arise but the common law has principles which may be applied.
Such men behold nothing beautiful in nature, nor anything to admire in well organized society, under the mad misrule of anarchy controlled by such an element, society would soon lapse back to the days of primitive barbarism and superstition.
I do not admire fastidiousness," I answered; "I do not like to have defects pointed out to me, which my own ignorance does not discover.
Oh Gabriella, I long to have him come back, that you may know and admire him.
I could not walk through a room without stopping to admire some work of genius, some masterpiece of art.
Never mind,--we will all admire you as much as if you were a bride.
He passes on from flower to flower, without seeking to gather one to place in his bosom, though he loves to inhale their fragrance and admire their bloom.
I found him this morning in the library, standing before that beautiful picture of the Italian flower girl, which you admire so much.
Nor are they without their flattering friars that admire them and give them openly the title of honorable, in hopes, no doubt, to get some small snip of it themselves.
Nor are they less fools who admire these beasts as if they were gods.
In like manner the common sort of men chiefly admire those things that are most corporeal and almost believe there is nothing beyond them.
But what of this when they give up and down their foolish insipid verses, and there wants not others that admire them as much?
Not even a picture-book was taken down from the window for her to look at; so that she soon ceased to admire even the picture-books--a natural result of the conviction that they belonged to a sphere above her reach.
I could not admirethe Nelson Column, nor that which lends monumental distinction to the Duke of York.
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring.
It is natural and pardonable that we should like to know the details of the daily life which the men whom we admirehave shared with common mortals, ourselves among the rest.
We all admire the achievements of this band of distinguished doctors who do not practise.
Do not you all wonder andadmire to see and behold and hear?
It was my impression that there is more to study than to admire in the interior, but I saw the cathedral so much oftener on the outside than on the inside that I may not have done justice to the latter aspect of the noble building.
Can you all believe half the truth, and admire to hear the wonders how great the soul is--only behold--past finding out!
You admire it for its lovely aspect; but when you remember that this flowering grass is wheat, the finest food of the highest human races, it gains a dignity, a glory, that its beauty alone could not give it.
Hence admire not At what of them I tell thee, whose renown Time covers, the first Florentines.
Thou no more admire Thy soaring, (if I rightly deem,) than lapse Of torrent downwards from a mountain's height.
But it is part of our delight, to measure Our wages with the merit; and admire The close proportion.
I am sorry to hear you admire coquettes," was too obvious an answer to be resisted.
She was so calm, so perfectly mistress of herself, that I could not but admire her.
I could admire his appearance, but he himself attracted me no more than when he had words of angry fury on his tongue.
I told him not at all; that I had seen much to admire among the Highlanders; and if he came to that, Mr. Campbell himself was a Highlander.
She received Cherami with cordiality, although she barely knew him; but she liked company, and was especially eager to have people admire her house.
But, unless I am very much mistaken, when I looked in just now to admire the charming picture presented by all the ladies seated at the table, you were behind Mademoiselle Adolphine, with a plate in your hand, and eating what was on the plate.
There was no disguise in this; he began to love Percival,--what would seem more strange to the superficial, to admire him.
But I love him sincerely, and I admire him beyond measure.
What an inexhaustible source of enjoyment to admire this incomparable view, which stretches in all its beauty before our windows!
You must know how I admire and bow down before your artistic modesty and your great strength of character!
For instance, a man may admire Beethoven, and yet by temperament be more akin to Mendelssohn.
I do not rave about the music of the new French school as a whole, nor about each individual composer, so much as I admire the influence of the novelty and freshness which are so clearly discernible in their music.
As soon as I have done so, I shall write you my opinion--whether you want it or not--because I admire your talent.
Is not your Highness's poem an echo of this lofty feeling of humanity which so dominates me, and how can I therefore fail to admire the fundamental idea of your verses?
For Glinka, Dargomijsky, and Serov I cannot feel any enthusiasm, for, highly as I value their works, I cannot admire them as men.
We must admire his firm and proud attitude in the face of triumphant Wagnerism; but to love him is impossible.
As to Serov, he was a clever man of encyclopedic learning, but I knew him personally, and could not admire his moral character.
I do not know what students admire nowadays, but our dreams were wildly imaginative.
There are persons I admire more than Montaigne, but there is no one I would evoke more gladly, or with whom I could talk better.
As to her (Marthe), I cannot express to you how much I admire her, and the art displayed in developing her character, or rather her malady.
I pass the whole day, and almost the whole night, bent over my table, and admire the sunrise with great regularity!
What I admire in Boileau is what I admire in Hugo; and where one has been good, the other is excellent.
Admire here one of the polite ways of Providence which would be hard to believe: in whose house have I lodgings?
There is at present a school of painting which, in order to make us admire Pompeii, adopts a style more rococo than that of Girodet.
We cannot but admire the ready brush of the abbess and the courage with which she grappled with difficulties, drawing with equal skill human figures and divine personifications, dramatic incidents and allegorical combinations.
I even admire her; as a matter of fact I admire all people who are able to risk so much for something that doesn't really concern them at all.
With justice men admire in Caesar the author the inimitable simplicity of the composition, the unique purity and beauty of the language.
But in spite of this the practical statesman will admire the work as well as the master-workman.
Thus transformed, the twain walked up to the palace of the Raja Subichar, and stood for a while to admire the gate.
She would have her husband get down from the roof to admire this stone, and remarked to him with some contempt that the men now-a-days were miserable feeble pigmies compared to those giants.
The prodigal attentions and the infinite kindness of these excellent people daily put me to shame, and I continually admire to see that their cordial hospitality is not deformed by the slightest trace of ostentation.
We may still admire and love its models, but we can create nothing of the same kind, which does not bear the most obvious stamp of flat imitation.
I acquire a great deal of technical information here, and admire the judicious division and series of the work, the ingenious modes of transport, the moveable iron railways, &c.
There is no woman whom I more admirethan Lady Madeleine Trevor;--and, Cravatischeff!
You think you see before you a work of Benvenuto Cellini; and know not which to admire most, the fine execution and the elegance of the details, or the tasteful and artist-like disposition of the whole.
There are few women whom I more admire than Madame von Furstenburg.
On the other hand, we can but admire his great qualities in many respects.
As long as people will admire heroic attitudes more than heroism, such disillusionment is bound to be the price of their error.
We admire him in very much the same way as young Frenchmen admire Victor Hugo—that is to say, for his “royal liberality.
I admire Wagner wherever he sets himself to music— Wherein I Raise Objections.
Later on we admire the one as well as the other for the opposite reason: as masters and paragons in economy, as prudent amphitryons.
Incidentally, I admire the modesty of Christians who go to Bayreuth.
When my successor arrived, I drew the long, delightful breath which first made me thoroughly sensible what an unnatural life I had been leading, and compelled me to admire myself for having battled with it so sturdily.
The new bridge is within a minute's walk of the monument; and we went thither, and leaned over its parapet to admire the beautiful Doon, flowing wildly and sweetly between its deep and wooded banks.
