Mademoiselle Plouernel sat steeped inrevery at the opposite end of the parlor.
She was aroused from this melancholy reveryby a loud knocking at the street door.
But as she rose at length from her revery she wondered if after all she had not been actually dreaming, because a sound had come to her ears that was unfamiliar and that seemed of a piece with her reading.
The newcomer himself, lost in thought, was oblivious of this scrutiny, and it was as one speaking from revery that he launched his next inquiry.
The carriage-wheels crumble her revery to fine sand.
But Grandon Park and its owner look as tempting this morning as they did in her twilight revery last evening.
To look on revery as the equivalent of vision in the Aristotelian sense, as Rousseau and so many of his followers have done, is to fall into sham spirituality.
The Arcadian revery which should be allowed at most as an occasional solace from the serious business of living is set up as a substitute for living.
But to suppose that revery of this kind has anything to do with the faith of Plato and of Christ, is to fall from illusion into dangerous delusion.
One of the reasons why pantheistic revery has been so popular is that it seems to offer a painless substitute for genuine spiritual effort.
Rousseau indeed assumes that his art of mixing himself up with the landscape is identical with leisure; like innumerable disciples he confuses revery with meditation--a confusion so grave that I shall need to revert to it later.
The sight and sound of water seem to have been a special aid to revery in Rousseau’s case.
What may be termed the cosmic reveryof a Senancour or an Amiel[241] has very much the same effect.
One may devour life in revery and then the melancholy arises from the disproportion between the dream and the fact.
It does not follow, as I said in a previous chapter, because revery or “intuition of the creative flux” cannot take the place of leisure or meditation, that one must therefore condemn it utterly.
But both Stoics and Epicureans would have found it hard to understand the indifference to the intellect and its activities that Rousseauistic revery implies.
Now this perception of the human law is something very different from the pantheistic revery in which George Sand was also an adept.
The revery that thus consumes life in advance is not necessarily erotic.
Pantheistic revery of the kind I have been describing leads inevitably to a special type of symbolism.
On the other hand, he corrupts rather than denies religion, turning meditation into pantheistic revery and in general setting up a subtle parody of what is above the ordinary rational level in terms of the subrational.
But inasmuch as these protests have come from men who have stood not for work but for reverythey have for the most part been futile.
An experiment on the speed of revery or of daydreaming.
Until then she had believed that the earth contained no being created for her, and had often indulged in pensive revery over her loneliness.
The blue sky, so intense and clear, so deep piercing, was all I needed to gaze on; and I was far gone in revery when I heard a knock at the door of my room.
It seemed to me that I must not watch him, as I was doing most decidedly, and I disentangled myself from that revery with a shock.
She sat just behind him so as to command both the model and the canvas, her chin on the back of her hands, her body sunk in the depths of an armchair, her glance set in revery before her.
So deep was his painful revery that he did not hear the entrance of Dr.
Randal took up the newspaper, and endeavoured, but in vain, to conjecture what had excited the minister's exclamations and the revery that succeeded it.
So Mrs. Goodyer left him, and stole back to Burley's room on tiptoe: The young man remained in deep revery for some moments.
From this revery Leonard did not seek to rouse himself, till the bell at the garden gate rang loud and shrill; and then starting up and hurrying into the hall, his hand was grasped in Harley's.
Roland, rousing himself from a revery into which he had fallen, after the Sixth Book in this history had been read to our family circle.
She broke into his revery with: "Don't you know any women, down there, but your aunt?
The old man was annoying, always, and now, after the long revery of the night before about Madge Brierly, this attitude was doubly disconcerting.
A certain trace of revery does find a vent in the traditional art of contrary melodies.
It rises amid flashes of fiery brass in bewildering blare of main theme, then sinks again to the depth of brooding, though the revery of the appealing phrase has a climactic height of its own, with the strange, palpitating harmonies.
His symphonic poems must be enjoyed in a kind of musical revery upon the poetic subject.
So his symphonic poems must ever be enjoyed mainly for the music, with perhaps a revery upon the poetic story.
And like as not it is jest like my incoherence in revery that from that little baby my mind would spring right on to the French exhibit to that noble statute of Jennie D.
A melancholy revery occupied her mind; and although she had before her the spectacle of the first court of Europe at the feet of him she loved, everything inspired her with fear, and dark presentiments involuntarily agitated her.
The whole thing appears a transient thought, a brilliant revery that at once assumed a durable form---the realization of a dream.
Lady Eleanor had scarcely aroused herself from her revery when Bagenal Daly entered.
His revery was only broken by a sudden change from the high-road to the noiseless quiet of the neat avenue which led up to the house.
When her father had gone Dorothy stood in revery for a little time, and then looking toward the door through which her father had just passed, she spoke as if to herself: "He does not know.
He was in a revery and spoke more to himself than to me.
The conclusion of his long revery was that in Annie Walton existed his only chance of life and happiness.
He was startled out of his revery by the sharp bark of a squirrel that ran chattering and whisking its tail in great excitement from limb to limb in a clump of chestnuts near.
In a revery I strolled along through the streets which, because the diminutive houses cast so little shadow, became hotter every minute, and passed slowly out of the city.
Thereupon I was roused from my revery by a breath of sultry fragrance.
These words struck the vicar a blow, which he felt the more because his late revery had made him completely happy.
Yes, it will be a fine day," replied the canon, after a pause, apparently issuing from a revery and wishing to conform to the rules of politeness.
I was awakened from my revery by hearing George call in a low voice to Frances, telling her to fasten the ends of the leathers to a bedpost or a heavy piece of furniture, and asking her if she could come down hand under hand.
George stood inrevery for a moment and answered as if he were speaking to himself:-- "But what will happen if we are overpowered in the king's closet?
We walked up Thames Street till we came to the neighborhood of Baynard's Castle, where we took boat and went to Whitehall, each of us in silent revery all the way.
This revery was broken by the announcement that Madame de Fleury had arrived, and was at that moment trying on her dress.
The revery into which he had fallen was broken by his father.
One of Amiel's magical phrases is that in which he describesrevery as the Sunday of the soul.
Revery becomes of the highest importance when it substitutes for definite thinking that deep and silent meditation in which alone the soul comes to know itself and pierces the wonderful movement of things about it to its source and principle.
Once, after a long silence, she started from a revery with the sudden consciousness of his look intent upon her, and turned with parted lips and eyes which smiled at him out of troubled depths.
It was Tom Gaylord himself who abruptly aroused him from his revery by bursting in at the door.
These gradual insinuations into his revery at length made him turn.
Oh, the valedictory that you are to win for Jack's sake," said Betty, coming out of the revery into which she had fallen for a moment.
Then she forgot all about her quest for the literature references, for in her revery she was listening to the Voices again, and seeing herself in a dimly foreshadowed future, the centre of an acclaiming crowd.
It was a little revery of small triumphs, but the sum of them mounted up to something considerable.
Fortunately, Cashel did not hear the words, but stood in deep reveryfor some seconds.
Lost in the gloomy revery these sad thoughts suggested, he took no note of time, nor marked the lagging hours which stole heavily past.
A slight shuddering shook him as he uttered these words, and a dreamy reveryseemed to gather around him; but he arose, and walking to the window, opened it.
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