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How perfidious! cried La Fleur. How unlucky! said I. I should not have been mortified, Monsieur, quoth La Fleur, if she had lost it. Nor I, La Fleur, said I, had I found it. Whether I did or no will be seen hereafter. The man who either disdains or fears to walk up a dark entry may be an excellent good man, and fit for a hundred things, but he will not do to make a good Sentimental Traveller.
It is a strange fact, but incontestible, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet disdains to use other argument than truth, has less influence over men's minds, than he who, grasping and selfish, refuses not to adopt any means, nor awaken any passion, nor diffuse any falsehood, for the advancement of his cause.
Eveleen came back to Laura with a droll disappointed gesture. 'Insult to injury, said she, disconsolately. 'Of course, said Amy, 'he could not have thought you wanted to dance with him, or you would not have gone to stir him up. 'Well, then, he was very obtuse. 'Besides, you are engaged. 'O yes, to Mr. Thorndale! But who would be content with the squire when the knight disdains her? Mr.
He disdains all the vulgar artifices of authorship, all the cant of criticism, and helps to notoriety. He has no grand swelling theories to attract the visionary and the enthusiast, no passing topics to allure the thoughtless and the vain. He evades the present, he mocks the future.
I had a great dislike to noise or to anything like a public exhibition. I might have resisted, for the soldiers were unarmed, and I would not have been taken up, this sort of arrest not being legal in Venice, but I did not think of it. The 'sequere deum' was playing its part; I felt no reluctance. Besides, there are moments in which a courageous man has no courage, or disdains to shew it.
"Race on," said the buttercups; "race on, Bevis; that butterfly disdains us because we are so many, and all alike." "Be quick," said a great moon-daisy to him; "catch him, dear. I asked him to stay and tell me a story, but he would not." "Never mind me," said the clover; "you may step on me if you like, love."
Oh strange infatuation of unconquerable prejudice! his very life will he sacrifice in preference to his name, and while the conflict of his mind threatens to level him with the dust, he disdains to unite himself where one wish is unsatisfied!"
Unlike the ribald, whose licentious jest Pollutes his banquet, and insults his guest, From wealth and grandeur easy to descend, Thou joy'st to lose the master in the friend. We round thy board the cheerful menials see, Gay with the smile of bland equality; No social care the gracious lord disdains; Love prompts to love, and reverence reverence gains.
He was seen one day, to the disgust of many spectators, to enter Antwerp in black foreign uniform, at the head of his troopers, waving a standard with a death's-head embroidered upon it, and wearing, like his soldiers, a sable scarf and plume. History disdains to follow further the career of the renegade, traitor, end assassin.
I conjure you, by every thing that is sacred, to tell me what it is that has filled you with this sudden aversion to me." "No, sir; that you shall never obtain from me. I have nothing to say to you. I stand still and hear you; because virtue disdains to appear abashed and confounded in the presence of vice. Your conduct even at this moment, in my opinion, condemns you.
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