United States or Ethiopia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The pretenders to power and dominion appear in too familiar a light to impose upon the multitude, and they have no aids at their call, by which they can bridle the refractory humours of a people who resist their pretensions. Theseus, king of Attica, we are told, assembled the inhabitants of its twelve cantons into one city.
Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits; for an example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark; yet even there too the figures in Chaucer are much more lively, and set in a better light: which though I have not time to prove, yet I appeal to the reader, and am sure he will clear me from partiality.
This they call a Reforming Sovereign; but I cannot see what good comes out of such wild Humours and Fancies.
So as the best title in true English they get with their merriments is to be called good fools: for so have our grave forefathers ever termed that humorous kind of jesters: but that which giveth greatest scope to their scorning humours is rhyming and versing. One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry.
A proud poor gentleman was Richard Nutter, her late husband, and his scanty means not enabling him to keep up as large an establishment as he desired, or to be as hospitable as his nature prompted, his temper became soured, and he visited his ill humours upon his wife, who, devotedly attached to him, to all outward appearance at least, never resented his ill treatment.
His Grace had lost money at York, and more to Lewis on the way to London. He was in one of his vicious humours. He insisted that Hyde Park should be the place of the contest. In vain did Comyn and I plead for some less public spot on account of the disagreeable advertisement the matter had received.
But Cleonice humours him not, let tongues wag as they may. Easier to take three cities than that child's heart." "Is it so indeed?" exclaimed the Chian, joyfully; "Cleonice loves him not?" "Laughs at him to his beard: that is, would laugh if he wore one." "O Diagoras!" cried Antagoras, "hear me, hear me.
He has painted forth his little humours, his individual feelings, and eternised himself to his readers. Johnson and Hawkesworth we receive with respect, and we dismiss with awe; we come from their writings as from public lectures, and from Addison's as from private conversations.
"You're quite sure of that?" responded my father authoritatively, as he advanced towards her. "Oh! yes, yes," cried my mother, trembling; "indeed you're not." "Ain't I in a very good humour?" continued my father. "Yes, you are in the best of humours, and always are so, unless I aggravate you," replied my mother, whimpering.
She had never been so uncertain in her humours as at this important crisis. She knew, and had publicly stated as much, that she was "embarking in a war with the greatest potentate in Europe;" yet now that the voyage had fairly commenced, and the waves were rolling around her, she seemed anxious to put back to the shore.
Word Of The Day