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The smothered and pent-up mania must have vent What! Was not the page sufficiently black before? I am amazed at my own infatuation! My very soul spurns at it! But 'tis past Deceitful, damned sex! Idiot that I was, I began to fancy myself beloved! I! Blind, deaf, insensate driveler! Torpid, blockish, brainless mammet! Most sublime ass!
It seemed that in these days all the hopes of our youth were being shattered. That poetic turning of the sword into a sickle, which gladdened our hearts ten or twelve years since, had been clean banished from men's minds. To belong to a peace party was to be either a fanatic, an idiot, or a driveler. The arts of war had become everything.
William; the weather has moderated a great deal since nightfall, and I rather think the ice may be weak." "Pooh! nonsense! fiddle-de-dee!" exclaimed the other traveler, testily; "do you think, old driveler, that a few hours of moderate weather could weaken, effectually, the ice of a river that has been hard frozen for a week? Why, at this moment a coach might be driven across with perfect safety!"
"I wonder when she intends to die," said Mr Harrel. "She's been a long time about it," cried Sir Robert; "but those tough old cats last for ever. We all thought she was going when Monckton married her; however, if he had not managed like a driveler, he might have broke her heart nine years ago."
When the man with the ballot loses confidence in this mentor, he will start a game of his own, and then the jig will be up with that idiot. We use the word idiot advisedly here. When a tax was assessed against the incomes of the rich, this driveler would score a point gained in favor of the people. This claim of itself shows the institution to which he should be consigned.
The march of his intellect is like that of a crab, backward.... The highest inspirations of poetry are resolvable into three ingredients: the rant of unregulated passion, the whining of exaggerated feeling, and the cant of factitious sentiment; and can therefore serve only to ripen a splendid lunatic like Alexander, a puling driveler like Werter, or a morbid dreamer like Wordsworth.
'WHERE? Tell me WHERE, dolt! idiot! driveler! before I twist your neck for you! "Truly, eccellenza, I would have gone to the rescue of the poor Giacomo, but respect for your commands kept me silent. 'A thousand pardons, signor! he whispered, out of breath with his shaking. I will tell you instantly most instantly.
Let me go to him, receive his blessing, and close his eyes, and you shall have all aye, all." "Answer me as I put the questions, or this musket shall send you to keep the old driveler company: where is your pack?" "I will tell you nothing, unless you let me go to my father," said the peddler, resolutely.
"Your notion of peace is only utopian, anyway, as long as you never, any day, stopped the war by yourself!" They point to the battlefield and its wreckage: "And you say that War won't be forever? Look, driveler!" The circle of the setting sun is crimsoning the mingled horizon of humanity: "You say that the sun is bigger than the earth? Look, imbecile!"
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