One must obey one's stars, and mine ordained me to be a looker-on and no more.Phillips
They used to sit on a bench, somewhat withdrawn from the flower-bordered walks, and watch the strange stream flowing so placidly past them.Narrator
Seeing is believing, but I can assure you that eating is testing.Phillips
In short, I viewed London through a prismatic crystal, and saw a prodigious metropolis refracted within at strange angles, burning with every colour of the prismYoung Man
But I am certain that the horror does not lie in the landscape, nor in the blue sky, nor in the grey grass.Narrator
The world is as fine a fairy tale as heart could wish.Phillips
Yet I have heard talk of the beauty and blessings of the country and contrast made between smoke and rural loveliness; it seemed to me that those who made these comparisons had never really seen what they pretended to describe.Young Man
At the fringe of the mirror I saw dimly other forms that passed and vanished; fantastic and strange things took shape for a moment and were dissolved.Narrator
I fear lest I become part of the theory, a mere case in the history of delusion.Young Man
Here, I perceived at last, was a fitting haunt for the terrible and shroud, for the unholy things of whispered legend.Narrator