Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern — volume 4
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern — volume 4
Mabie Hamilton Wright
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It is curious to note that not one of these travelers looked irritatedat the ferocious beast suspended from his neck and glued against hisback; it seemed as though he considered it as making part of himself. None of these weary and serious faces bore witness to any despair; underthe sullen cupola of the sky, their feet plunging into the dust of asoil as desolate as that sky, they went their way with the resignedcountenances of those who have condemned themselves to hope forever. The procession ...passed by me and sank into the horizon's atmosphere, where the rounded surface of the planet slips from the curiosity ofhuman sight, and for a few moments I obstinately persisted in wishing tofathom the mystery; but soon an irresistible indifference fell upon me, and I felt more heavily oppressed by it than even they were by theircrushing Chimeras. HUMANITY At the feet of a colossal Venus, one of those artificial fools, thosevoluntary buffoons whose duty was to make kings laugh when Remorse orEnnui possessed their souls, muffled in a glaring ridiculous costume, crowned with horns and bells, and crouched against the pedestal, raisedhis eyes full of tears toward the immortal goddess.
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