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His observations were here cut short by the appearance of three other travellers; but their entrance failed to arouse the priest and his novice, who remained, as before, apparently asleep. "Yea, verily," thought the innkeeper, as he slowly advanced to meet the newcomers, "they be but two dullards.
In the darkest hours of his country's trial, he affected a serenity which he was far from feeling, so that his apparent gaiety at momentous epochs was even censured by dullards, who could not comprehend its philosophy, nor applaud the flippancy of William the Silent. He went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face.
But in the main the "Dunciad" was a noble vindication of literature from the herd of dullards and dunces that had usurped its name, a protest against the claims of the journalist or pamphleteer, of the compiler of facts and dates, or the grubber among archives, to the rank of men of letters. That there was work and useful work for such men to do, Pope would not have denied.
Lagardere laughed as he answered the riddle. "Because, dear dullards, I want you to enter the service of Gonzague. If I return to France to right a wrong, I know the risk I run and the blessing of you two devils to help me." Each of the two bravos extended his right hand. "Any help we can give," protested Cocardasse "is yours," added Passepoil. Lagardere clasped the extended hands confidently.
'Oh, I thought, 'he has seen me I am done for now; it is all up...." And so on in the same style. Or he will begin like this: "I was yesterday at our friend Z. Z 's public lecture. I wonder how it is our alma mater don't speak of it after dark dare display in public such noodles and patent dullards as that Z. Z Why, he is a European fool!
And in that moment he knew what Daniel Kain had felt, and Maynard Kain before him; a passionate and contemptuous hatred for all the dullards in the world who never dreamed dreams or saw visions or sang wordless songs or ran naked-hearted in the flood of the full-blown moon.
"My dear Dorothy," observed the sibyl of the golden locks, when the other related how faithfully Richard had kept his compact concerning her fingers, "you ought never to make a man promise the thing you do not want. They are such dullards; besides, they have a passion for keeping their word."
You have seen the Cnidian Aphrodite, anyhow; now I want to know whether you have also seen our own Aphrodite of the Gardens, the Alcamenes. Poly. I must be a dullard of dullards, if that most exquisite of Alcamenes's works had escaped my notice. Ly. Poly. Frequently. Ly. That is really enough for my purpose. But I should just like to know what you consider to be Phidias's best work. Poly.
And shall it be admitted that this potent argument of little minds is as powerless as the dullards of all ages have steadfastly maintained? Forbid it, Heaven! the gimlet is as proper a gimlet as any in all Christendom, but the timber is too hard to pierce!
There were confessions on all sides. "We intended feasting on the senior banquet," cried Erma. "We had bribed Belva. He was to lead the caterers up to our third floor. You seniors would have sat waiting in the Philo Hall below." "No, indeed. You reckoned without considering that the senior class were not all dullards. We had heard of your plans.
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