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The essential thing in this movement was the abandoning of the formal imitation of second-rate antiques and the substitution of the sculpture of the Italian Renaissance as a source of inspiration and of the direct study of nature as a means of self-expression.
Nobody wanted to go to a small, dull, out-of-the-way garrison town like Louisbourg, where there was no social life whatever nothing but fishermen, smugglers, petty traders, a discontented garrison, generally half composed of foreigners, and a band of dishonest, second-rate officials, whose one idea was how to get rich and get home.
"Is it really true, doctor, that he killed himself because Nanteuil wouldn't have any more to do with him?" "He killed himself," replied Trublet, "because she loved another. The obsession of genetic images frequently determines mania and melancholia." "You don't understand second-rate actors, Dr. Socrates," said Pradel. "He killed himself to cause a sensation, and for no other reason."
By dint of making numerous inquiries, he found himself at length in a region of squalid residences and second-rate shops and ale-houses, in the midst of which he finally discovered the Boar's Head Tavern.
Unless he and ten other Hallam boys could work wonders in five minutes. But they couldn't and didn't. The time keeper brought the game to a close. "Gridley has handed us six to nothing," muttered Forsythe, as he led his disheartened fellows from the field. "That puts us with the other second-rate teams in the state."
It is a neat saying; but it seems unlikely that anything really second-rate should turn into first-rate epic.
And then his explosiveness, impatience, excitability; his conscious dumb ignorance of all things beyond his own small horizon of personal survey! An Orson capable enough of being coaxed and tickled, by some first-rate conjurer; first-rate; a second-rate might have failed, and got torn to pieces for his pains.
Haydn did a lot of spade-work for Mozart and Beethoven, especially Mozart; but that was early, more than twenty years before his death, and it is significant that the portion of his life-work which most influenced and directed Mozart and Beethoven is chiefly second-rate music.
"You'll do it, my dear, you'll do it on your own!" he answered gaily, and she went home perplexed, depressed, beaten down, and ashamed. A newspaper had been left at the door. It was a second-rate theatrical journal, still damp from the press. The handwriting on the wrapper was that of Josephs, and there was a paragraph marked in blue pencil.
'I read in one of the most accredited journals of England the other day that Ireland had never produced a poet, could not even show a second-rate humorist, said Kearney. 'Swift and Sterne were third-rate, or perhaps, English, said Atlee.
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