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The years Michelangelo spent in the Casa Medici were probably the blithest and most joyous of his lifetime. The men of wit and learning who surrounded the Magnificent were not remarkable for piety or moral austerity.
* A homely proverb, signifying better wed a neighbour than one fetched from a distance. Mixen signifies dunghill. he may gang farther and fare waur but that's a' ane to the sang, 'I'm Madge of the country, I'm Madge of the town, And I'm Madge of the lad I am blithest to own The Lady of Beeve in diamonds may shine, But has not a heart half so lightsome as mine.
Only try me oh, the shame of speaking thus!" Her voice had grown more rapid toward the close: and now, breaking off, she put both hands to cover her face, that was hot with blushes. I went over and took them in mine: "You have made me the blithest man alive," said I. She drew back a pace with a frighten'd look, and would have pull'd her hands away.
Nor is the incident altogether inconsistent with what we know of the Duke's cheerful propensities. "Nose after ears!" was one of his blithest watchwords. Faced with so dispiriting a prospect and aware that His Highness was as good as his princely word, the sympathetic scholar, while too resentful to praise his achievements, may well have been too prudent to disparage them.
"If you tender me your grief for your insolence," he suggested, with truculent condescension, "you will save yourself a basting." Evander laughed outright, the blithest laugh that Halfman had yet heard pass from his Puritan lips. "I must deny you, pomposity," he answered, gayly. "It were pity to postpone a pleasure." "You are in the right," commented Halfman.
"Do so, by all means, dear lad; and I promise in return that I will tell every puffed-up dolt at home that you are the blithest comrade who ever fitted himself to man's moods. There, if that contents you, give wings to your heels!" Now may we understand That men's wisdom And their devices And their councils Are like naught 'Gainst God's resolve. Saxon Chronicle.
"You would be sorry, after all," continued the traveller, "were I to tell you poor Mike Lambourne was shot at the head of his regiment at the taking of a sconce near Maestricht?" "Sorry! it would be the blithest news I ever heard of him, since it would ensure me he was not hanged. But let him pass I doubt his end will never do such credit to his friends.
I said that nothing mitigated the tormento d'amore like beginning the day with a sustaining meal. I said you were a man of an unbounded stomach. I said you were subject to paroxysms of the most violent rage, and if you did n't get the proper variety and quantity of food, you 'd smash the furniture. I smiled upon her with my bonniest, blithest eyne. I ogled her. I chucked her under the chin.
And Scrooge said often afterwards that, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears. He had not gone far when, coming on towards him, he beheld the portly gentleman who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?"
And Scrooge said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears. He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?"
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