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Nothing displeases me more than to see people assenting to everything that they hear said; I at once come to the conclusion that they are either hypocrites, or there is nothing in them. But, with respect to Shakespeare, whom I have not read for thirty years, is he not rather given to bombast, 'crackling bombast, as I think I have said in one of my essays?"
In examining these qualities I immediately find many of them to concur in producing the sensation of pain and pleasure, independent of those affections, which I here endeavour to explain. Thus the beauty of our person, of itself, and by its very appearance, gives pleasure, as well as pride; and its deformity, pain as well as humility. A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases.
"If I did not like you, it would be uncivil of you to say you had found it out, unless I treated you rudely." "It may be nonsense, Miss Carvel. I speak according to my lights." "Then I should say that for a luminary of science your light is very limited," returned Hermione. "In future I will hide my light under a bushel, since it displeases you."
But she closed his mouth with her gloved hand and repeated with the gay obstinacy of intoxication: "Pooh, it will be all the more amusing if they do jeer at us! Come, let us be off, let us be off, quick!" Thereupon Duthil, who had been listening with a smile and the air of a man of pleasure whom nothing astonishes or displeases, gallantly took her part.
Nothing displeases me more than to see people assenting to everything that they hear said; I at once come to the conclusion that they are either hypocrites, or there is nothing in them. But, with respect to Shakespeare, whom I have not read for thirty years, is he not rather given to bombast, “crackling bombast,” as I think I have said in one of my essays?’
It is unjust to an artist to write on the spur of the moment of his work of the just seen picture which pleases or displeases. For what instantly delights the eye may never win its way into the heart, and what repels at first may steal later on into the understanding, and find its interpretation in a deeper mood. The final test of a picture, or of any work of art, is its power of enduring charm.
Some few months since I was happy in the love of a little child. Oh! I idolized my babe with a love that seemed greater than human affection. It was the loadstar of my life. "'Take care! Beware! cried one and all. 'Such idolatry is not wise; it displeases Heaven. "I laughed, and did not heed.
Armstrong looked distressed, but, remembering the wayward humor of the other, he gently answered: "I am sorry the form of expression displeases you; but I assure you I am glad to see you." "Nay," said Holden, "let me rather beg pardon for my rudeness; and that I fully believe thee, be my presence here the proof.
I have heard many an American speak of the English accent as "affected"; and our accent displeases the English. Now what Englishman, or what American, ever criticizes a Frenchman for not pronouncing our language as we do? His tongue has a different mother! I know not how in the course of the years all these divergences should have come about, and none of us need care. There they are.
If the heiress displeases me, it may be that she will please you or mayhap there is another heiress at Blois who will fall enamoured of those fierce moustachios." I laughed with him at the improbability of such things befalling. I carried in my bosom too large a heart, and one that was the property of every wench I met for just so long as I chanced to be in her company.
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