He was quite sure that he had not been dreaming. He had slept and waked again, and found himself in the midst of this marvellous world, this whispered glory.Lucian Taylor
There is no happiness, but there is peace.Lucian Taylor
Never again could there be an ending to that delicious moment: it was past, and with a sigh of content he saw it glow in the enchanted land whither he was being whirled away.Lucian Taylor
There was a month of calm and silence, and then came the storm.Arthur Machen
The summer brought a strange life to him, and opened a new world, and taught him the worthlessness of all the old world.Lucian Taylor
I have suffered tortures of the mind and of the body; but the worst torture of all has been the spectacle of the dead cities.Lucian Taylor
It was a profound and elemental passion of the spirit, as much a facet of his character as the words and features moulded by race.Arthur Machen
And so he stood, on the summit of the hill, under the pitiless blaze of the midday sun, waiting with an eagerness that was half joy and half fear for the vision.Arthur Machen
All that night he dreamed of the ancient city where he was lord and master, where all bowed down before him and did him homage, where he moved in pomp and pageant with the senators of the city.Arthur Machen
Innocence and childhood faded into shadowy grey figures, always growing smaller, always receding farther into the background, and then disappeared in the mists of the past, leaving a bright and angelic form in the foreground of his thoughts.Lucian Taylor