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Pope, but you must not call it Homer," said a friend when he read it, and his judgment is still for the most part the judgment of to-day. *Macaulay. Bentley. It was after he had finished the Odyssey that Pope wrote his most famous satire, called the Dunciad. In this he insulted and held up to ridicule all stupid or dull authors, all dunces, and all those whom he considered his enemies.

Their natural disposition is turned to gaiety and happiness; while a Scotchman is thinking about the term-day, or, if easy on that subject, about hell in the next world while an Englishman is making a little hell of his own in the present, because his muffin is not well roasted Pat's mind is always turned to fun and ridicule.

After having undergone a great deal of ridicule, and having been kept some time to make sport for these unfeeling wretches, we were at length cast adrift in the open ocean. I had eighteen persons with me in the boat. There remained on board the Bounty twenty-five hands, the most able men of the ship's company.

"Very well; I withdraw absurd," he said. "Now sit down again, and we will talk. Tell me what is in your mind." Michael made a great effort with himself. He desired, in the secret, real Michael, to be reasonable and cordial, to behave filially, while all the time his nerves were on edge with his father's ridicule, and with his instinctive knowledge of his father's distaste for him.

Social conventions are not unlike those of other southern countries. For the majority of women marriage is the one aim in life, and an unmarried woman is shown little consideration and is the butt of much ridicule.

The feeling was attended with a slight sense of wounded pride for Susy, as if her enthusiasm had exposed her to ridicule. The man who had carried him, and seemed to be the head of the party, had already preceded them to the tent, and presently reappeared with a lady with whom he had exchanged a dozen hurried words.

These were happy days for the lad, but his pleasure was marred by the ridicule which the contrast between his slender figure and the stalwart frame of the "six-foot drummer" caused the fun-loving towns-people to indulge in.

With what ridicule and disbelief she would rend it into tatters! Reasons so exquisite were not for her. She could never understand them. Mrs. Pettifer abandoned her remonstrances and was for dropping the subject altogether. But Dick was obstinate. "You don't know Mrs. Ballantyne, Aunt Margaret. You are unjust to her because you don't know her. I want you to," he said boldly. "What!" cried Mrs.

We know it, each one for himself, that when we jibe or ridicule a good impulse in another, it is evidence of our weakness and incapacity to experience the same feeling ourselves, and it is the momentary hatred of envy that suggests a taunt or a mocking word on the firm resolution of our companion.

Women and gambling were not to his taste; that which could be had simply for the taking, without trouble or exertion, offered no charms to his fancy, he had no fear of the ridicule of the dancing-women, and their associates indeed, he occasionally sought them, for he enjoyed a war of words, and he was of opinion that no one in Thebes could beat him at having the last word.