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The "Venus and Adonis" and "Lucrece" appear, dedicated to Bacon's intimate friend, Lord Southampton; and that nobleman in 1594 contributes a large sum to the construction of the Globe play-house, Bacon having observed that the stage is a powerful instrumentality to "play on the minds" of the people; and on this stage a series of historical plays are put forth, everyone of which represents kings as monsters or imbeciles.
"Charlie," he said as a smile broke through, "prepare yourself." "Now, Captain, if those old imbeciles " The commander's smile broadened: "Our battery, ladies and gentlemen, can't go for a week." All laughed but Charlie. He swore at the top of his voice and threw himself from the room.
In an egg, as in the meat of a chicken, in beef, or in mutton, in milk, in everything, one perceives, and ought to taste, the juice, the quintessence of all the food on which the animal has fed. How much better food we could have if more attention were paid to this!" I laughed as I said: "You are a gourmand?" "Parbleu. It is only imbeciles who are not.
"Any party," said Ursula, "would be a congregation of imbeciles who didn't do their best to develop the genius of Paul Savelli." "I'm fond of Paul," said Colonel Winwood, in his tired way, "but I don't know that I would go as far as that." "It's only because you're a limited male, my dear James. I suppose Caesar was the only man who really crossed the Rubicon. And the fuss he made about it!
Curse them for fools and imbeciles. Fools never get into heaven. Thank the good Lord for that." It seemed to the quivering Americans that the gates were mocking them by drawing farther away instead of coming nearer. "Are we going backward?" groaned Truxton, his hands gripping the side of the bounding seat.
He laid his hand on them. It was as when a strange dog sees us go to take up a stone. The actress recoiled. "I am no judge of such things," cried she, hastily. Triplet bit his lip. He could have killed her. It was provoking, people would rather be hanged than read a manuscript. Yet what hopeless trash they will read in crowds, which was manuscript a day ago. Les imbeciles!
They were not discouraged by public opinion; indeed, several of them were favoured beings, suspected by my Father of exaggerating their mental density in order to escape having to work, like dogs, who, as we all know, could speak as well as we do, were they not afraid of being made to fetch and carry. Miss Mary Flaw was not one of these imbeciles.
His brief anger was swallowed up in something else. Never, even in France, had he seen John look like this. "We're a precious pair of dupes!" began John in a high voice and without preliminaries. "Prize idiots imbeciles!" "Very likely," said Benis. "But you're not talking to New York." He made no move to take the paper which John held out in a shaking hand.
Introducing the Blairs, of Missouri, with frequent complimentary allusions in his opening chapters, about the middle of his work Gurowski packed them off to Hades with the rest, and left the reader in despair at the prospects of a nation governed by such a set of imbeciles and rogues as our public men were represented to be by the amiable Pole.
Miss Myrtle was the store's star cloak-and-suit model. Tall, svelte, graceful, lovely in line and contour, she was remarkably like one of those exquisite imbeciles that Rossetti used to love to paint. Hers were the great cowlike eyes, the wonderful oval face, the marvellous little nose, the perfect lips and chin.
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