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She holds him fast, for she is mother of all his children; yet he must seek as though he knew her not, or she flouts him." Hilarius listened eagerly. Was this what the dancer had meant the "wide wide world, hunger and love"? "Did'st thou ever hunger, good Martin?" "Ay, lad," said the minstrel, surprised, "and 'tis good sauce for the next meal" "Did'st thou ever love?"
For as nobody is against pleasure that ariseth from sauce or wine going in with our necessary food, but Socrates flouts and refuseth to admit that superfluous and vain pleasure which we take in perfumes and odors at a feast; thus the sound of a pipe or harp, when singly applied to our ears, we utterly reject, but if it accompanies words, and together with an ode feasts and delights our reason, we gladly introduce it.
He flouts love, but to show the world that he yet knows the ideal, he occasionally pictures truth and trusting affection in his speeches and books. This entire game of life is to him only a diversion. They may jeer him down in the House of Commons, but his patience is unruffled. He says, "Very well, I will wait."
And this one good thing must be allowed of Adam M'Adam: that, if there was only one woman of whom he was ever known to speak well, there was also only one, in the whole course of his life, against whom he ever insinuated evil and that was years afterward, when men said his brain was sapped. Flouts and jeers he had for every man, but a woman, good or bad, was sacred to him.
The whip, the buffetings, the crown of thorns, the nails, the cross, the spear, with the vinegar and gall, were all nothing in comparison of our sins. Nor were the flouts, taunts, mocks, scorns, derisions, &c., with which they followed him from the garden to the cross, such cruel instruments as these.
Granted I'm fat and slow and a glutton, and lazy as a wolverine. I can fight like one, too! Don't make any mistake there, George!" His broad face flushed crimson, his little, green eyes snapped fire. "D' ye think I don't love a fight as well as my neighbor? D' ye think I've a stomach for insults and flouts and winks and nudges?
In the library and parlor, he confesses he is as a gawk or one dumb. The great middle-class ideal, which is mainly the ideal of our own people, Whitman flouts and affronts. There are things to him of higher import than to have wealth and be respectable and in the mode. We might charge him with narrowness and partiality and with seeing only half truths, as Mr.
Just such a figure was a Pythagorean that came here of late, barefoot and wan, and said he was an Athenian. Marry, he too was in love, methinks, with a plate of pancakes. Aeschines. Friend, you will always have your jest, but beautiful Cynisca, she flouts me! I shall go mad some day, when no man looks for it; I am but a hair's-breadth on the hither side, even now. Thyonichus.
"There was an interlude upon domestic life, 'where alone the true man could be revealed, which was full of beauty. "He came in to-day to see . He flouts the idea of 'that preacher, Horace Greeley, being put up as candidate for president. 'If it had been Charles Francis Adams, now, we should all have voted for him.
Naples has always been a temple of fortune to me, but if I went there now I should starve. Fortune flouts old age. Leonilda and Lucrezia wept with joy when the good marquis gave me the five thousand ducats in bank notes, and presented his mother-in-law with an equal sum in witness of his gratitude to her for having introduced me to him.
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