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Updated: May 28, 2025
He spoke of trade-unionists always as "those swine and dogs" and of the members of the Government as "those dogs and swine", swine and dogs being refined and temperate euphuisms for the epithets Mr. Pike actually employed. However he heard Sabre's stumbling periods tolerantly out and tolerantly dealt with him. "Excuse me, Sabre, but that sort of stuff's absolutely fatal fatal.
It is the fashionable literature, the literature that entertains a court, the literature of a tyranny, with his gross servility, with his courtly affectations, with his arts of amusement, his 'vain delights, with his euphuisms, his 'fire-new words, it is the polite learning, the Elizabethan Belles Lettres, that is brought in here, along with that old Dryasdust Scholasticism, which the other two represent, to make up this company.
Favor, friendly intimacy, it is visible from the first, avails nothing with this young King; beyond and before all things he will have his work done, and looks out exclusively for the man ablest to do it. Hence Bielfeld goes to Hanover, to grin out euphuisms, and make graceful courtbows to our sublime little Uncle there.
"Ah," said the little quarto, with a heavy sigh, "I see how it is: these in modern scribblers have superseded all the good old authors. I suppose nothing is read nowadays but Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Sackville's stately plays and Mirror for Magistrates, or the fine-spun euphuisms of the 'unparalleled John Lyly."
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