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And suppose some crane-necked general to go speeding by on a tall charger, spurring the destiny of nations, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night.
Except the booby his son, he is the most prating, forward, ignorant coxcomb of my acquaintance; and that is a bold word. But his impertinence makes him amusing: I will introduce you. I thanked my gentleman for his politeness, but declined the offer: and he continued. 'Look at that man in brown, leaning against the pillar! He is a painter, and a man of genius; but the greatest ass existing!
I have the comfort of knowing that I did my share in helping to destroy her. Had she seen her husband a day or two before but no! there was a new System to interdict that! Or had she not so violently controlled her nature as she did, I believe she might have been saved. "He said once of a man, that his conscience was a coxcomb.
Somers, with joyful astonishment, "is it possible that I have been under a mistake all this time? My dearest Emilie! now you are every thing I first thought you! Indeed, I could not think with patience of your making such a match; for M. de Brisac is a mere nothing worse than a mere nothing; a coxcomb, and a peevish coxcomb." "And how could you suspect me of loving such a man?" said Emilie.
"Which of us, think you, had not the sense to foresee that you would proceed in this manner?" He is as frivolous in his sentiments as in his language: so that no person who is acquainted with his writings, need to seek any farther for a coxcomb.
Beneficent Disseminator of blessings to all Thy creatures, how great and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in thrall the free and the bond, the simple swain and the polished coxcomb, the lover in the heyday of reckless passion and the husband of maturer years. But indeed, sir, I wander from the point. How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys.
The second edition of three thousand was out of print almost as soon as it appeared, and one thousand two hundred and fifty of the third edition are already bespoken. I hope all this will not make me a coxcomb. I feel no intoxicating effect; but a man may be drunk without knowing it. If my abilities do not fail me, I shall be a rich man, as rich, that is to say, as I wish to be.
But the ice once broken, she was not to be turned from her purpose, and repeated, as if it were a stereotyped form of words she had been practising, "I only wish to ask one single thing, are you engaged to Cecil?" Du Meresq was no coxcomb.
"Poor wretch," she said, twirling round the little bit of paper in her fingers, "how I could crush her with this! and it is for a thing like this that she must break her heart, forsooth for a man who is stupid a coxcomb and who does not care for her. My poor good Rawdon is worth ten of this creature."
Several, indeed, seem to have been dictated by feelings so transitory, that in the course of the correction of proof blame was turned into praise, and praise into blame; i.e. he wrote in MS. before he met the agreeable author, I leave topography to coxcomb Gell; we have his second thought in the first edition, before he saw the Troad, I leave topography to classic Gell;
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