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Even now it is a favourite subject for those whose perverted taste leads them into the dubious art of copying tapestry in paints on cloth. The serious accusation against this set, which in composition seems much like the tableaux in grand opera, is that it invades the art of painting. And that is the fault of woven art at that period.
"I've said all I had to say," returned Mr. Ingle with a dubious laugh. "And if you don't mind, I believe I'll wait for you outside, in the machine. I want to look at the gear-box."
Among our visitors have been two houseboat men, whose craft is moored a quarter of a mile below. One of them is tall, thick-set, forty, with a round, florid face, and huge mustaches, evidently a jolly fellow at his best, despite a certain dubious, piratical air; a jaunty, narrow-brimmed straw hat is perched over one ear, to add to the general effect; and between his teeth a corn-cob pipe.
"Don't you think," he said, "that for an artist to buy a Gallery is a bit dubious? Besides, ten thousand pounds is a lump, and I'm not a commercial character." June looked at him with admiring appraisement. "Of course you're not, but you're awfully businesslike. And I'm sure we could make it pay. It'll be a perfect way of scoring off those wretched dealers and people."
The Romans, who just at that time were learning by experience in Spain that transmarine provinces were a very dubious gain, and who had by no means begun the war with a view to the acquisition of territory, took none of the spoil for themselves, and thus compelled their allies also to moderation.
Esther made no attempt to conceal the effect of these words. "Save him, father! It is not too late!" she said, entreatingly. He answered, with a dubious smile, "A man drowning may be saved; not so a man in love." "But you have influence with him. He is alone in the world. Show him his danger. Tell him what a woman she is." "That might save him from her. Would it give him to you, Esther?
And I'm prepared to affirm that, in highly-strung, imaginative, or over-worked people change of climate does sometimes actually cause, or seem to cause, change of nature." Young England, who was by no means highly-strung or imaginative, looked politely dubious, but the doctor was evidently pleased. "An ally!" he cried.
"If only it wasn't for that man whom I'm certain I saw," thought Peggy as she combed the sand out of her hair, "I should feel quite relieved, but as it is Roy, are you still certain you saw that man the one you pointed the revolver at I mean?" Roy looked dubious. "I don't know," he confessed. "Oh, Roy Prescott," snapped Peggy, "I I'd like to shake you."
He might also have referred to Vinton Arnold, whom he had studied so carefully, but he could not bring himself to speak of one whom in his heart he knew to be the chief barrier between them, for he was well aware that it was Mildred's involuntary fidelity to her first love that made his suit so dubious.
The genius of common sense was the very last leader their devotees could wish for. And as the revival became increasingly a reaction, relying more and more on supposed precedent and less on the essential reason of things, it inevitably got further away from Johnson who cared everything for reason and nothing at all for dubious history.
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