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One plantain in a garden will eat out not only the flowers in the plats, but the very grass in the borders. Any thing that takes away from modesty, refinement, gentleness, takes away from womanliness.
The little play of feature that his face presented, was cut deep into it, in a few hard curves that made it more like work; and he had certain notches in his forehead, which looked as though Nature had been about to touch them into sensibility or refinement, when she had impatiently thrown away the chisel, and said: 'I really cannot be worried to finish off this man; let him go as he is.
And through the inevitable reaction of environment upon the man, the central point in his valuation of men and women tended to shift from the fundamentals, mind and character, to the surface qualities dress and style and manners and refinement, and even dress. This process of demoralisation was well advanced when they moved from the apartment.
"Philip has a sort of refinement instead of principles, and a heart instead of a conscience, just heart enough to keep himself happy and everybody else miserable." "Do you mean to say," asked the obstinate Hal, "that there is no difference between refinement and coarseness?" "Yes, there is," she said. "Well, which is best?"
O gentle man, the common man is yet thy brother, and thy gentleness should make him great, infecting him with thy humility, not rousing in him the echo of a vile unheavenly scorn. Wilt thou, with thy lofty condescension, more intrinsically vulgar than even his ugly self-assertion, give him cause too good to hate thy refinement?
He spoke English extremely well, and was apparently a man of considerable taste and refinement. Truly, the situation was so puzzling that I was bewildered. After he had gone, I re-dressed myself and went across to the Gambrinus, where I had an appointment with Robertson. I found him seated alone at a table in the corner awaiting me. "Well?" he said, "I've got that address for you, Mr.
Do not, then, reject a husband who, it is true, has not all the refinement you could desire, but who will love you, and with whom you can be happy." "Yes, my dear mother," exclaimed Jane, with a deep and impassioned sigh, "as happy as you have been." The expression escaped her in the excitement of the moment.
If we cannot build up a reputation for generosity without becoming ostentatious we might better take lessons in refinement from someone "to the manor born." There is no desire to single out and set down by name and number every sort of self-indulgence. Excesses of any kind are indulgences, and it is easy to fall into them if we have not built up our stamina to resist.
Phoebus observed a most dejected mulatto person, who had been lying back in the shadows, crawl forward, rattling his manacles. This man, when spoken to, replied with such refinement and accuracy, however his face betokened great inward misery, that the sailor took as careful a survey of him as the moonlight permitted, coming in by that one lean attic window.
It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance and ferocity seemed to have done their worst. Yet even then the Neapolitan provinces, recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.
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