Of old a structure of possibilities intensely romantic, it was now dingy, pitiable, insignificant.

No man, the firmest or the most obtuse, could be otherwise than deeply agitated, when looking down upon this little brookso insignificant in itself, but invested by law with a sanctity so awful, and so dire a consecration.

Of old a structure of possibilities intensely romantic, it was now dingy, pitiable, insignificant.

Such, indeed, as the day now is has it ever been, though in a less degree: always it has cast upon men impressions significant, insignificant, and of an ill significance, promiscuously and in excess; and always sleep has been the filter of memory, the purifier of experience, providing a season that follows closely upon the impressions of the day, ere

The people whom it is hard to fit into any scheme of benevolent creation are the vague, insignificant, drifting people, whose only rooted tendency is to do whatever is suggested to them.