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"You had other things riches of the King?" "For myself I had horses and arms, and money to pay the service in my household." "Had you not a treasury?" "Yes. Ten or twelve thousand crowns." Then she said with naivete "It was not a great sum to carry on a war with." "You have it yet?" "No. It is the King's money. My brothers hold it for him."
Anna are given with infinite grace and sentiment. "The meeting of Joachim and Anna before the golden gate." This is one of the most important subjects. It has been treated by the very early artists with much naïveté, and in the later examples with infinite beauty and sentiment; and, which is curious, it has been idealized into a devotional subject, and treated apart.
Now Martha's innocence, naïveté, and exuberance rather pleased Lawrence. In fact, Martha was the only human being in all the world who had treated Lawrence with any kind of consideration that February morning, and all at once Lawrence felt his heart warm and go out toward the prattling child. "Come here, little Martha," said he, kindly, "and let me hold you on my knee.
Sylvia had seldom seen him so light-heartedly amused. He explained: "I haven't seen this sort of solemn, genteel posturing for several years now, and I find it too delicious! To see the sweet, invincible American naïveté welling up in their intense satisfaction in being so sophisticated, oh, the harmless dears!"
John's eye: it reminded me of old days, it reminded me of his picture: it half led me to think that part, at least, of his professed persuasion of Miss Fanshawe's naivete was assumed; it led me dubiously to conjecture that perhaps, in spite of his passion for her beauty, his appreciation of her foibles might possibly be less mistaken, more clear-sighted, than from his general language was presumable.
Are you and your dog travelling far?" "It is my holiday time, and I ramble on through the summer. I am travelling far, for I travel till September. Life amid summer fields is a very joyous thing." "Is it indeed?" said Kenelm, with much /naivete/. "I should have thought that long before September you would have got very much bored with the fields and the dog and yourself altogether.
A gentleman present said, with great simplicity and naivete, that there was one prayer which did not strike him as coming exactly under this description, and being asked what that was made answer, 'The Samaritan's "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner!" This appeal by no means settled the sceptical dogmatism of the two disputants, and soon after the proposer of the objection went away; on which one of them observed with great marks of satisfaction and triumph 'I am afraid we have shocked that gentleman's prejudices. This did not appear to me at that time quite the thing and this happened in the year 1794.
People good people think quite differently about art now, don't they, Mr. Langham? She spoke with perfect naïveté. He saw more and more of the child in her, in spite of that one striking development of her art. 'They call it the handmaid of religion, he answered, smiling. Rose made a little face. 'I shouldn't, she said, with frank brevity. 'But then there's something else.
Mr Sidney Herbert is reported, with great naïveté, and innocently enough, to have offered the following reasons for the omission: "He could show from proofs before him, that the murders which were committed in broad day were, generally speaking, murders perpetrated against persons in the higher ranks of life; and that, on the other hand, the night murders were committed on the poor and defenceless; and for this reason, the rich man lived in a house carefully secured, with his servants well armed, his windows barricaded, and every thing about it capable of standing a siege; and when such a man was murdered it was usually in the open day; perhaps fired at from a hedge when he was returning from the quarter sessions, or some other duty.
In general, much of that naivete which to modern readers seems Chaucer's most obvious literary quality must be ascribed to the times in which he lived and wrote. This quality is in truth by no means that which most deeply impresses itself upon the observation of any one able to compare Chaucer's writings with those of his more immediate predecessors and successors.
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