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"Yes," said he, at last, "I am fond of china I have reason to be fond of china but for china I should " and here he sighed again. "You value it for the quaintness and singularity of its form," said I; "it appears to be less adapted for real use than our own pottery."
Our critics appear to be fascinated by the quaintness of our public, as the world is when our beast-garden has a new importation of magnitude, and the creatures appetite is reverently consulted. They stipulate for a writer's popularity before they will do much more than take the position of umpires to record his failure or success.
His "shining morning face" was round as a baby's, and talked as pleasantly as his voice did, with smiles for accents and dimples for punctuation. Mr. Ticknor speaks of his sermons as "full of intellectual wealth and practical wisdom, with sometimes a quaintness that bordered on humor."
We were both Roberts; and as we took our places at table, he addressed me with a twinkle: "We are just what you would call two bob." He offered me port, I remember, as the proper milk of youth; spoke of "twenty-shilling notes"; and throughout the meal was full of old-world pleasantry and quaintness, like an ancient boy on a holiday.
They were not a little diverted at the quaintness of the remark, and went away satisfied that he was at least the most remarkable man of the age, if not the wisest. Not a thought was given to old Battle during all this time, which was the strangest thing of all, considering the affection he bore him. Tickler wonderful account of his mission, and the prospects that were held out to him.
It was a sweet letter, I thought, even if it carried little comfort; quiet and reticent like its writer, but with an undertone of affection. I laid it down at length, and, taking the ring from its box, examined it fondly. Though but a copy, it had all the quaintness and feeling of the antique original, and, above all, it was fragrant with the spirit of the giver.
That it's awfully quaint, that the pair are awfully quaint, quaint with all our dear old quaintness by which I don't mean yours and mine, but that of my own sweet countrypeople, from whom I've so deplorably degenerated that," Mrs. Assingham declared, "was originally the head and front of their appeal to me and of my interest in them.
Lamb is the only imitator of old English style I can read with pleasure; and he is so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his authors that the idea of imitation is almost done away. There is an inward unction, a marrowy vein, both in the thought and feeling, an intuition, deep and lively, of his subject, that carries off any quaintness or awkwardness arising from an antiquated style and dress.
She gave him a little fleeting, reluctant smile. "You are making fun of it all," she said. "That is not wise of you! You should not laugh at grave and noble things." He was charmed with her quaintness. "Was he grave and noble? Amadis, I mean?" he asked, his blue eyes sparkling with a kind of mirthful ardour. "You are sure? Well, all honour to him! And to YOU for believing in him!
An old custom of rejoicing over the installation of a new parish priest is still to be seen in almost primitive quaintness. The people of each parish nobles, citizens, and plebeians alike formerly elected their own priest, and, till the year 1576, they used to perambulate the city to the sound of drums, with banners flying, after an election, and proclaim the name of their favorite.
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