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With that he took Mrs Varden's hand again, and having pressed it to his lips with the highflown gallantry of the day a little burlesqued to render it the more striking in the good lady's unaccustomed eyes proceeded in the same strain of mingled sophistry, cajolery, and flattery, to entreat that her utmost influence might be exerted to restrain her husband and daughter from any further promotion of Edward's suit to Miss Haredale, and from aiding or abetting either party in any way.
The Marquis de Racqueville flew from a window of his hotel, on the banks of the Seine, and fell into a boat full of washerwomen on the river. All these unfortunate attempts were lampooned, burlesqued on the stage, and pursued with the mockery of the public. Up to this time, therefore, the efforts of man to conquer the air had miscarried.
"Aren't you really hurt worse than you pretend? I'm sure your ankle ought to be attended to as soon as possible." "Don't tell me you're a lady doctor, ma'am," he burlesqued his alarm. "Can you tell me where the nearest ranch house is?" she asked, ignoring his diversion. "The Lazy D is the nearest, I reckon." "Which direction?" "North by east, ma'am." "Then I'll take the most direct road to it.
The wonder is that children should ever have been burlesqued, or held to be fit subjects for irony. Whether the thing has been done anywhere out of England, in any form, might be a point for enquiry. It would seem, at a glance, that English art and literature are quite alone in this incredible manner of sport.
Take away this one property of a fool, and the orator shall become as dumb and silent as the pulpit he stands in; the musician shall hang up his untouched instruments on the wall; the completest actors shall be hissed off the stage; the poet shall be burlesqued with his own doggrel rhymes; the painter shall himself vanish into an imaginary landscape; and the physician shall want food more than his patients do physic.
"One'd thenk," said Lois, sagely, "a chicken never stood on a wall before, to hear 'em, or a hen laid an egg." Nor did Holmes smile once because the chicken burlesqued man: his thought was too single for that yet. It was long before he thought of the people who came in quietly to see him as anything but shadows, or wished for them to come again.
"Pedant!" murmured Stephane, turning his head, then adding with animation: "It is just because I respect religion that I do not like to see it burlesqued and parodied. Let a true angel appear and I am ready to render him homage; but I am enraged when I see great seraph's wings tied with white strings to the shoulders of wicked, boorish, little thieves, liars, cowards, slaves, and rascals.
He got so carried away by his subject, and spoke so loudly, that he quite alarmed the order-bedecked general. Nejdanov was a strong admirer of Ostrovsky, but could not help feeling, in spite of the author's great genius, his evident desire to throw a slur on modern civilisation in the burlesqued character of Veherov, in "Never Sit in Another Man's Sledge".
If any of our young readers can be so hard-hearted as to enjoy a laugh at the expense of poor Pyramus and Thisbe, they may find an opportunity by turning to Shakspeare's play of the "Midsummer Night's Dream," where it is most amusingly burlesqued. Cephalus was a beautiful youth and fond of manly sports. He would rise before the dawn to pursue the chase.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen," he burlesqued, "if you will look upon my right " They looked. And their sudden surprised interest made his heart skip a beat. "Why, I I didn't know " Esther began, in the words he had once stammered to her. She gave him a quick questioning glance, then looked again at the sketch. Jonathan had become very grave. "You have a gift for drawing."
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