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Many paragraphs are noble, and few are mean, yet the whole is languid; the plan is too much extended, and a succession of images divides and weakens the general conception, but the great reason why the reader is disappointed is that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more than poetical by spreading over his mind a general obscurity of sacred horror, that oppresses distinction and disdains expression.
She disdains a daily interference with the affairs of other countries. House of Lords, February 11, 1828. No Personal or Political Hostility to Canning. I rise to protest against any such imputation being cast upon me, as that I ever entertained any personal hostility to Mr. Canning.
'And, being unblest with fortune, wouldst thou allure some wealthy suitor? 'I am richer than he who disdains me. 'Strange and more strange! And thou lovest him who loves not thee? 'I know not if I love him, answered Julia, haughtily; 'but I know that I would see myself triumph over a rival I would see him who rejected me my suitor I would see her whom he has preferred in her turn despised.
No matter: his aphorism, the mere whimsical sally of an epicure, becomes an imperious truth if we forget the luxury of the table and look into what is eaten by the little world which swarms around us. To each its mess. The cabbage Pieris consumes the pungent leaves of the Cruciferae as the food of her infancy; the Silkworm disdains any foliage other than that of the mulberry-tree.
"But who disdains to dazzle the eyes with Asiatic splendour," interrupted Philotas. "And yet what do we not hear about the unprecedented luxury in the royal palace!" growled the gray-haired warrior.
All cultivated readers, who have formed their tastes on the masterpieces of good literature, are attracted, sometimes against their will, by the dignity and reserve of his style, qualities which belong to the man, and not only to the writer. Like Goethe, he disdains the facile arts which make the commonplace reader laugh and weep.
The Bruchus is not a sedentary inhabitant of granaries: it requires the open air, the sun, the liberty of the fields. Frugal in everything, it absolutely disdains the hard tissues of the vegetable; its tiny mouth is content with a few honeyed mouthfuls, enjoyed upon the flowers. The larvae, on the other hand, require the tender tissues of the green pea growing in the pod.
Whether, while he admired the trunks of the old elms, he calculated what would be their value in deals, this narrative disdains to mention; but it feels by no means bound to retain the same cautious reserve with regard to his sentiments while he gazed into the eyes of Emily Pitskiver.
On this spot landed from exile Henry of Bolingbroke, known afterwards in our annals as King Henry IV.! Bare is the soil of corn and of trees, it disdains meaner fruit; it grows kings! Hark!"
There was, then, something in itself in this property of M. Fouquet's, besides its position of six leagues off the coast of France; a position which makes it a sovereign in its maritime solitude, like a majestic ship which disdains roads, and proudly casts anchor in mid-ocean. D'Artagnan learnt all this without appearing the least in the world astonished.
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