"Impermissible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... situation. He conceived his inner life for the last nine months as consisting of a series of resistances. He conceived the episode of Elise as a safety valve, natural but unpleasant, for the emotions caused by Barbara: the substitution of a permissible for an impermissible lapse. It had been incredible to him that he should make love ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
... advantage of the situation. He conceived his inner life for the last nine months as consisting of a series of resistances. He conceived the episode of Elise as a safety valve, natural but unpleasant, for the emotions caused by Barbara: the substitution of a permissible for an impermissible lapse. It had been incredible to him that he should ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
... insupportably complete, Why should it only say the long night through, In mimicry of you, - "A cup of chocolate, One farthing is the rate, You drink it through a straw, a straw, a straw!" Oh, of all sentences, Piercingly incomplete! Why did you teach that fatal mouth to draw, Child, impermissible awe, From your old trivialness? Why have you done me this Most unsustainable wrong, And into Death's control Betrayed the secret places of my soul? Teaching him that his lips, Uttering their native earthquake and eclipse, Could never so avail To rend from hem to hem the ultimate veil Of ...
— Poems • Francis Thompson |
