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I will leave thee to hopeless regret; to wiles that have been scorned and defeated; to the unheeded petulance of dotage; to the fondness that is repayed with neglect; to restless wishes, to credulous hopes, and to derided command: to the slow and complicated torture of despised old age; and that, when thou shalt long have abhorred thy being, shall destroy it. 'The misery, said OMAR, 'which thou hast menaced, it is not in thy power to inflict.
You sometimes hear people say, 'Yes, but he was in his dotage. He was not. He was in his early prime. He brought to bear all his thirty years' training in exact observation, and all the mechanical and electrical appliances he could devise, without once detecting anything deceitful." "Even in the 'Katie King' episode?" asked Harris. "Even Katie stood the test.
'Come, dearest! said Glaucus, impatiently. 'Thinkest thou that the gods above us or below hear the impotent ravings of dotage? Come! Long and loud rang the echoes of the cavern with the dread laugh of the Saga she deigned no further reply.
She once, as a mark of high favour, took me up-stairs, and, opening a secret door, showed me a hoard a mass of coarse, large coin about fifteen guineas, in five-franc pieces. She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. These were her savings. She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five.
"That old fellow is in his dotage!" growled Captain Pendleton to himself, as he tenderly lifted the head and shoulders of all that remained of poor Rosa Blondelle. But at the touch of her cold form, the sight of her still face, tears of pity sprang into the young soldier's eyes. Rosa had been a fine woman, and her body was now no light weight.
"Argumentum ad hominem." "Oh, come on. The man was institutionalized." "And genetic fallacy, too. My, my." "Ignore him, son," said the glasses to the youth. "He's not been very well since his wife laughed at his last paper. A tree " "She did not laugh," interrupted the beard. "And is this the effect of dotage or of primordial ignorance?" "False dilemma, Mr. Logician."
SO after these quests of Sir Gawaine, Sir Tor, and King Pellinore, it fell so that Merlin fell in a dotage on the damosel that King Pellinore brought to court, and she was one of the damosels of the lake, that hight Nimue. But Merlin would let her have no rest, but always he would be with her.
Ultimately, leaving the lady, he returned to Pisa, without having accomplished aught, and there for chagrin fell into such dotage that, as he went about Pisa, to whoso greeted him or asked him of anywhat, he answered nought but 'The ill hole will have no holidays; and there, no great while after, he died.
No new chapters could be added, because there was no more life left to write them. In its dotage this noble nation became known, by its superstitious reverence for the law, as "the people of the book." Learned doctors gravely taught their pupils that "God himself studies the law for the first three hours of every day."
There won't be a soul there that isn't old enough to be in her dotage, but I promised that nothing short of sudden death would make me miss it." "Annabel, I am surprised at you," said her sister reprovingly. "I wouldn't go far in the evening alone, Miss Murray," she added in her stately way. "It does not seem just well exactly proper, don't you know." "Nonsense, Elinor.
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