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If not, Aristeides spoke plainly, his people must perforce close alliance with Mardonius. Almost to the amazement of the Athenian chiefs, so accustomed were they to Dorian doltishness and immobility, after a ten days’ delay and excuses that “they must celebrate their festival the Hyacinthia,” the ephors called forth their whole levy.
These are fields in which something may always be found by the gleaner, and therefore those general collections in which the works are curtailed would be to be reprobated, even if epitomisers did not seem to possess a certain instinct of generic doltishness which leads them curiously to omit whatever ought especially to be preserved. Sir Thomas More.
"But," cried I, "do you believe that man was a poet that dunce who had no science, nay, nor knowledge either? who only rose above the heads of men by vanity and doltishness?"
But in the month of November of the last year, for once she owned to herself that she had been overcome, overcome, it is true, because her adversary was plainly a person of stupidity, mailed by his doltishness against the keenest sarcasm she could launch against him, yet nevertheless overcome.
She went through the same forms each day, at the usual hours of the day, and Jane, though she would have felt the apathetic doltishness of the woman less, felt how hard it must be for him to bear. 'Your sister will be with you soon, she said. 'I am glad, and yet I hope you will not allow her to put me aside altogether? 'You shall do as you wish, said Philip. 'Is she like Patrick?
He found greater calm and better health in this labour of a brute which kept him bent all day long over invoices, over enormous additions, each figure of which he patiently added up. At night, broken down with fatigue, without an idea in his head, he enjoyed infinite delight in the doltishness that settled on him. He had to quarrel with his mother to go with the dealer in linen.
So falleth it out, that having indeed no right comedy, in that comical part of our tragedy, we have nothing but scurrility, unworthy of any chaste ears: or some extreme show of doltishness, indeed fit to lift up a loud laughter, and nothing else: where the whole tract of a comedy should be full of delight, as the tragedy should be still maintained in a well-raised admiration.
She went through the same forms each day, at the usual hours of the day, and Jane, though she would have felt the apathetic doltishness of the woman less, felt how hard it must be for him to bear. 'Your sister will be with you soon, she said. 'I am glad, and yet I hope you will not allow her to put me aside altogether? 'You shall do as you wish, said Philip. 'Is she like Patrick?
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