tailieunhanh - Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 24

Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 24 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 24 The first signs of spring even such as make themselves felt towards the middle of February not only produce little white and violet flowers in the more sheltered corners of woods and gardens but bring to birth thoughts and desires comparable to those faintly colored and sweetly scented petals in the minds of men and women. Lives frozen by age so far as the present is concerned to a hard surface which neither reflects nor yields at this season become soft and fluid reflecting the shapes and colors of the present as well as the shapes and colors of the past. In the case of Mrs. Hilbery these early spring days were chiefly upsetting inasmuch as they caused a general quickening of her emotional powers which as far as the past was concerned had never suffered much diminution. But in the spring her desire for expression invariably increased. She was haunted by the ghosts of phrases. She gave herself up to a sensual delight in the combinations of words. She sought them in the pages of her favorite authors. She made them for herself on scraps of paper and rolled them on her tongue when there seemed no occasion for such eloquence. She was upheld in these excursions by the certainty that no language could outdo the splendor of her father s memory and although her efforts did not notably further the end of his biography she was under the impression of living more in his shade at such times than at others. No one can escape the power of language let alone those of English birth brought up from childhood as Mrs. Hilbery had been to disport themselves now in the Saxon plainness now in the Latin splendor of the tongue and stored with memories as she was of old poets exuberating in an infinity of vocables. Even Katharine was slightly affected against her better judgment by her mother s enthusiasm. Not that her judgment could altogether acquiesce in the necessity for a study of Shakespeare s sonnets as a preliminary to the fifth chapter of .