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Updated: June 2, 2025
The Lyrical Ballads of 1798, the clarion-call of the new poetry, so clearly sounded, so inattentively heard, might have told all, and did tell some, what this generation was about to do. Strange to say, there is testimony of good wits that he was by no means a fool; yet such drivelling rubbish as he and his coadjutors wrote even the present day has hardly seen.
Knowing this, Aemilianus' advocates, only a short time ago, poured forth with all their usual loquacity a flood of drivelling accusations, many of which were specially invented for the purpose of blackening my character, while the remainder were such general charges as the uninstructed are in the habit of levelling at philosophers.
But lies are venerable as well as respectable. There are old, gray lies that men half worship. The more toothless and drivelling, often the more venerable. They have imposed their solemn emptiness on men for generations. They have awed the souls of the fathers. They make the children tremble.
In a chair by the stove sat a miserable bloated wreck of a man, drivelling and mumbling in a drunken lethargy. "That's his father," said the woman in a whisper. "When he gets as bad as that he comes here because he knows my husband is the only one as won't turn him out of doors."
But oh, that a nation which has known a Corneille should ever spawn forth a ! And with these rickety and drivelling abortions all having followers and adulators your Public can still bear to be told that they have improved wonderfully on the day when they gave laws and models to the literature of Europe; they can bear to hear proclaimed a sublime genius in the same circles which sneer down Voltaire!"
The distance wavered before Choate's eyes, He hated Jeffrey childishly because he could be so calm. "You needn't worry," he said. "She is as completely separated from me as if as if you had never been away from her." "That's it," said Jeff. "You can't marry her unless she's divorced from me. She's welcome to that the divorce, I mean. But you can't go drivelling on having frenzies over her.
He will call you to account for every minute of which you have robbed them, every joy that you have poisoned, every perfection that you have intercepted. Then, if you can answer Him then, Moor, I will admit that you have won. FRANCIS. No more, not another word! Am I to be at the mercy of thy drivelling fancies? MOSER. Beware! The different destinies of mankind are balanced with terrible nicety.
Mackintosh, says Mill, uses 'macaroni phrases, 'tawdry talk, 'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like 'raving'; he 'deluges' us with 'unspeakable nonsense. 'Good God! sums up the comment which can be made upon one sentence.
This was much more clear and, in every way, interesting than the Beethoven; every now and then there were passages that were pleasing, not to say more. Jones liked it better than I did; still, one could not feel that any of the movements were the mere drivelling show stuff of which the concerto had been full.
But oh, that a nation which has known a Corneille should ever spawn forth a ! And with these rickety and drivelling abortions all having followers and adulators your Public can still bear to be told that they have improved wonderfully on the day when they gave laws and models to the literature of Europe; they can bear to hear proclaimed a sublime genius in the same circles which sneer down Voltaire!"
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