childe-harold-like

Updated: May 27, 2025

And perhaps among these classes he might have found disinterested friendship, for nobody any longer sought Warrender on account of what he could do. But he did not make the trial, wrapping himself up in a Childe-Harold-like superiority to all those who would consort with him, now that he had lost his hold of those with whom only he desired to consort.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - A Country Gentleman and his Family