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But indeed it's only a sort of artlessness if you see the thing properly.... It's not vulgarity it's childishness.... They've hardly got over it yet their intense astonishment at being any good at war.... That large throaty Victory! She's not so militant as she seems. She's too plump.... Of course what a German really appreciates is nutrition.
His wife, with a silly woman's subtlety, having rather lower ideals that is to say, a touch of the very human vulgarity known as social ambition made use of his Bohemianism to help her on in her mundane success. This was the principle of the thing. If things were well done and they always were at her house would not a duke, if he were musical, go anywhere to hear the greatest tenor in Europe?
His chivalry gave his satire a very delicate edge. It was infinitely more cutting in showing the misfit of vulgarity with beauty than in showing vulgarity alone. But du Maurier's gentlemanliness narrowed his range. It forced him into putting down something preposterous instead of a true type as soon as he wished to create "a bounder."
The poet can certainly imitate a lower nature; and it enters into the very definition of a satirical poet: but then a beauty by its own nature must sustain and raise the object, and the vulgarity of the subject must not lower the imitator too much.
He was in short, what the French call a bon garçon, and the English a capital fellow; easy without assurance, comic without vulgarity, and, as Sydney Smith wittily hath it "a great number of other things without a great number of other things." Upon Dalrymple, who had been all day silent, abstracted, and unlike his usual self, this joyous influence acted like a tonic.
He did not mean to think of furniture at present; but whenever he did so it was to be feared that neither biology nor schemes of reform would lift him above the vulgarity of feeling that there would be an incompatibility in his furniture not being of the best.
The Furies slept to her crime, and haunted but the avenger." "Hist!" said Varney. The door opened, and Ardworth reappeared. "I quite forgot what I half came to know. How is Helen? Did she return home safe?" "Safe yes!" "Dear girl, I am glad to hear it! Where is she? Not gone to those Miverses again? I am no aristocrat, but why should one couple together refinement and vulgarity?" "Mr.
Was I right, or was it the result of the slight offence I had taken? Was the gracious, graceful, naive, playful, daring woman or could she be or had she been just the least little bit vulgar? I am afraid I was then more sensitive to vulgarity in a woman, real or fancied, than even to wickedness at least I thought I was.
Lilia had achieved pathos despite herself, for there are some situations in which vulgarity counts no longer. Not Cordelia nor Imogen more deserves our tears. She herself cried frequently, making herself look plain and old, which distressed her husband.
But many of the narrations in Aristaenetus are incapable of being elevated into poetry; and, unluckily, these familiar parts seem chiefly to have fallen to the department of Halhed, who was far less gifted than his coadjutor with that artist-like touch, which polishes away the mark of vulgarity, and gives an air of elegance even to poverty.
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