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Ledger soirées, if so glitteringly bizarre as to draw high-browed frowns from the more reserved and staid of the thinning old guard of ancestor-worshipers, nevertheless, were enthusiastically hailed and eagerly attended by the younger set, and played no small part in the insinuation of "those St. Ledgers" into the realms of the anointed.
"Let me be the first to do mine homage." And as Edgar Atheling stood in the outer court, with lofty head and noble thoughtful face, pure-complexioned and high-browed, each who beheld him felt that there stood a king of men. A shout of "King Edgar! Edgar, King of England," echoed through the buildings; and priests, men-at-arms, and peasants began to press forward to do him homage.
It was characteristic of the odd friendliness of the whole scene that the great man should have thought it worth while to call back and name his heir to a mere humble applicant like Millner; and that the heir should shed on him, from a pale high-browed face, a smile of such deprecating kindness.
Why, I get real thrilled I hope you won't think I'm trying to get high-browed, Mr. Morton." "Why, no. Cer'nly not. I understand. Gwan." "It gets me going when I look down the aisle at the altar and see the arches and so on. And the priests in their robes they look so so way up oh, I dunno just how to say it so kind of uplifted." "Sure, I know. Just the esthetic end of the game.
There were the little faces of the children, peeping from their bed apart, and here the father's frame of strength, the mother's subdued and careful mien, the high-browed youth, the budding girl, and the good old grandam, still knitting in the warmest place. The aged woman looked up from her task, and, with fingers ever busy, was the next to speak.
They have to bellow songs about 'Deutschland, or drag in 'Gott. They don't take to the game as our men take to the game.... "I confess I'm taking to the game. I wish at times I had gone into the O.T.C. with Teddy, and got a better hold of it. I was too high-browed about this war business. I dream now of getting a commission....
Parkinson, a high-browed, shock-headed young man, who combined the duties of editor and reporter with those of advertisement canvasser and business manager of the one four-page sheet which Scarnham boasted, received the two police officials in a small office in which there was just room for himself and his visitors to squeeze themselves. "I was about coming round to you, Mr. Polke," he said.
And for all his attempts at self-reproach or self-discipline he felt at bottom that he wasn't at fault. As a matter of fact all the elements of his troubles had been adequately diagnosed by a certain high-browed, spectacled gentleman living at Highbury, wearing a gold pince-nez, and writing for the most part in the beautiful library of the Reform Club. This gentleman did not know Mr.
They are nearly all French Canadians and Irish people." "Then you like dancing because there are no gentlemen to dance with?" "There are gentlemen at the picnics." "The picnics?" "The teachers' picnics. They have them every summer, in a grove by the pond." There was, then, a high-browed, dyspeptic high-school principal, and the desert-island theory was probably all wrong.
But I am entirely convinced that the drama renounces its chief privilege and glory when it waives its claim to be a popular art, and is content to address itself to coteries, however "high-browed." Shakespeare did not write for a coterie: yet he produced some works of considerable subtlety and profundity.
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