"'Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la
touche!'* They say he was very fine when he said that," he remarked, repeating the words in Italian: "'Dio mi l'ha dato.
It is necessary, however, to dissociate the man from his poetry, and Sung Chih-Wen's poetry often
touches a high level of inspiration.
The departing ladies who had said they would stay didn't, of course, thank heaven, stay: they departed, in consequence of arrangements made, in a rage of curiosity, as they professed, produced by the
touches with which he had already worked us up.
Yet her sympathetic command over, her power of evoking, the genius of places, is clearly shown in the
touches by which she brings out the so well-known grey and green of college and garden--touches which bring the real Oxford to the mind's eye better than any elaborate description [65] --for the beauty of the place itself resides also in delicate
touches.
An episode of humour or kindness
touches and amuses him here and there--a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more melancholy than mirthful.
As the younger girls stand together, giving the last
touches to their simple toilet, it may be a good time to tell of a few changes which three years have wrought in their appearance, for all are looking their best just now.
"No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he
touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation." CURRAN.[1]
And Shakespeare speaks of everything that
touches life most nearly.
Will was very open and careless about his personal affairs, but it was among the more exquisite
touches in nature's modelling of him that he had a delicate generosity which warned him into reticence here.
I could not answer that question, and I feared that Captain Nemo would rather take us to the vast ocean that
touches the coasts of Asia and America at the same time.
Pygmalion Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet, to whom the adventure of Eliza Doolittle would have been impossible; still, as will be seen, there are
touches of Sweet in the play.
As he was about to put the last
touches on the finger tips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off.