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And, perhaps, in order completely to account for all the observed eccentricities of the light of Eros, the irregularity of form may have to be supplemented by certain assumptions as to the varying reflective capacity of different parts of the misshapen mass.
Hilda had won her heart by unfeigned admiration for the chubby baby. To a mother, that covers a multitude of eccentricities, such as one expects to find in incomprehensible English. Mrs. Klaas put up with me because she liked Hilda. We spent some months together on Klaas's farm. It was a dreary place, save for Hilda.
But he was very ill; he became delirious and raved of many things talked of old college adventures, bid recklessly for imaginary books, and practised other eccentricities of fever. When his fever left him he was able to converse in a way I talking, and he scrawling faintly with a pencil on paper.
"Well, as it turned out, Mary was not in the least to blame it was all her father's fault at least his and old Darley's." It was necessary to say something so I said: "I always regarded Darley as a troublesome old thing." "So he was, but then they always had a great affection for him, although he had so many eccentricities.
Giovanni Barile was a coarse painter and a rough man; he had, however, generosity enough to see that the boy was worthy of better teaching, and got him entered in the bottega of Piero di Cosimo, who had attained a good rank as a colourist, his eccentricities possibly adding to his reputation. Accordingly in 1498, Andrea being then eleven years of age, a life of earnest study began.
So that, although he was a foreigner, he could at any time have become the Massaniello of Seville. A more honest creature I never saw, and I soon found that if I employed him, notwithstanding his eccentricities, I might entertain perfect confidence that his actions would be no disparagement to the book he vended. We were continually pressed for Bibles, which of course we could not supply.
His “Vorschlag zu einem Orbis Pictus für deutsche dramatische Schriftsteller, Romanendichter und Schauspieler” is a satire on the lack of originality among those who boasted of it, and sought to win attention through pure eccentricities.
Some, however, show preference for the earlier cups and drinking vessels of commoner materials, and for those eccentricities of the table found in curious hunting cups, vessels which had to be emptied at a draught, or to be drunk under the most difficult conditions like the puzzle cups of Staffordshire make.
Thus the two men so different in age and character, but so closely allied in intellectual aims led a joint existence which was both pleasant and helpful to both, in spite of the various eccentricities, the harshness and severity of the elder.
He studied the eccentricities of that busy life, the schemes of that sordid avarice, the hopes of the politician who lurked behind the man of science; he was able to foresee the mortifications that awaited the only sentiment that lay hid in a heart that was steeled, but not of steel.
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