Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

It was on the evening of a November day that three friends sat about their after-dinner table, chatting over their wine and walnuts, while the fire with its huge log crackled and sparkled, and the wind without moaned about the corners of the house. Everyone is aware that authors have in their studies an unlimited supply of rings of Gyges, coats of darkness, tarn-caps, and other means of invisibility,that they have the key to every house, and can hear and see words and actions the most remote. Come with me, then, kindly reader, and let us look and listen unseen; we have free leave; and you must know these gentlemen better. First of all, the host. See him leaning back in his chair, and looking into the fire, one hand unconsciously smoothing with restless thumb and finger the taper stem of his wineglass, the other playing with the ears of a favourite dog. He appears about thirty years of age, is tall, but loses something of his real height by a students stoop about the shoulders. Those decided almost shaggy eyebrows he has would lead you to expect quick, piercing eyes,the eyes of the observant man of action. But now that he looks towards us, you see instead eyes of hazel, large, slow-rolling, often dreamy in their gaze,such for size and lustre as Homer gives to ox-eyed Juno. The mouth, too, 1-4and the nose are delicately cut. Their outline indicates taste rather than energy. Yet that massive jaw, again, gives promise of quiet power,betokens a strength of that sort, most probably, which can persevere in a course once chosen with indomitable steadiness, but is not an agile combative force, inventive in assaults and rejoicing in adventurous leadership. Men of his species resemble fountains, whose water-column a sudden gust of wind may drive aslant, or scatter in spray across the lawn, butthe violence once pastthey play upward as truly and as strong as ever. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68646
Author: Vaughan, Robert Alfred
Release Date: Jul 30, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1893
Publisher Country: United Kingdom