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"Reflexion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... benefit, whatever it may be, involved in his having cast a spell upon the simpler, the very simplest, forms of attention. This is all he is entitled to; he is entitled to nothing, he is bound to admit, that can come to him, from the reader, as a result on the latter's part of any act of reflexion or discrimination. He may ENJOY this finer tribute—that is another affair, but on condition only of taking it as a gratuity "thrown in," a mere miraculous windfall, the fruit of a tree he may not pretend to have shaken. Against reflexion, ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James
... evolved a dress (unmade) of white crape embroidered in true lover's-knots of violet silk, and ears of wheat in gold. Then there was a scream at the glass, and Sarah seen in it with ten claws in the air very wide apart: she had slily turned the mirror and was devouring the reflexion of the finery, and this last Indian fabric overpowered her. Her exclamation was instantly followed by much polishing; but Mrs. Dodd replied to it after the manner of her sex: "Well it is lovely," said she to Julia: "but where is the one with ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... remember, you asked me in one of your letters to write you something to prevent you feeling sorry at having missed the games. And if I have succeeded in that, I am glad: if not, I yet console myself with this reflexion, that in future you will both come to the games and come to see me, and will not leave your hope of enjoyment dependent on ...
— Letters of Cicero • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... her knees, her palms lightly touching the ground, supporting her. At the edge of the streamlet she knelt, and she was looking with a species of startled shy astonishment at the reflexion of her face in the limpid brown water. And I, with sullen eye askance regarded her a good ten ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel |
Words linked to "Reflexion" : likeness, icon, input, interreflection, thoughtfulness, zodiacal light, mirror image, physical property, self-contemplation, comment, Parkinson's law, gush, cogitation, reverberation, echo, demo, demonstration, similitude, contemplation, replication, introspection, lamentation, mourning, flare, image, remark, act, meditation, effusion, physical phenomenon, virtual image, alikeness, picture, speculation, self-examination, consideration, outburst, sound reflection, retrospect, reflection, ebullition, study, ikon, blowup |
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