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One of the earliest Puritan regulations of this place was that licensed liquor-sellers should not sell to the young, and that half a pint only should be given to four men an amount so small that most drinkers would consider it only a tantalization.
When he was a boy a travelling show visited his native town, and though he was not permitted to go within the mystic and alluring tent, he stood longingly at the gate, and was prodigiously diverted and astonished by an exhibition of tight-rope walking, which was given outside the tent-door as a bait to lure pleasure-loving and frivolous townspeople within, and also as a tantalization to the children of the saints who were not allowed to enter the tent of the wicked.
Dudley was an early victim of the patent laws, which, to this day, have proved to be for the benefit of lawyers and officials, and the tantalization of true inventors and discoverers. The following extracts contain his story, and enable us to compare the present with the then state of iron manufacture:
Yet between two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. We have all heard of Barmecide banquets, where, out of tureens filled to the brim with nothing, the fortunate guest was helped to vast messes of air. For a hungry guest to take this tantalization in good part, was the sure way to win the esteem of the noble Barmecide.
I have enough of the sporting instinct to be able to take defeat cheerfully if the defeat falls within certain limits. It must not be so crushing as to be a positive humiliation, nor must it be by so fine a margin as to constitute itself a tantalization. Of the two, I prefer the former to the latter. The former can be dismissed under certain recognized forms.
Yet he was wonderfully happy, and the day seemed short in spite of the heat and the weariness. At four o'clock he hurried home and put his violin quickly in tune. It came then that dancing sprite of tantalization and joyously abandoned itself to the strings of the violin, so that David knew, of a surety, what a beautiful song it was.
'I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk! said Japheth; 'but such things as this don't come short of devilry! And flinging the match away, he slipped down to the ground. 'What's the matter? asked Darton. 'Not a letter, sacred or heathen not so much as would tell us the way to the great fireplace ever I should sin to say it!
And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!" The Pacific
Northcote was trying to say what was he not trying to say? to Ursula, under cover of the music, which was the best shield he could have had; and perhaps in reality, though Reginald was tantalized to the utmost degree of tantalization, even he had a certain enjoyment in the saucy self-defence which was more mischievous than cruel.
And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!" The Pacific.
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