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And what is the soil or climate where experience has not uniformly proved that the voluntary flow of heaped-up plenty, bursting from the weight of heaped-up luxuriance, has ever run with a more copious stream of revenue, than could be squeezed from the dry husks of oppressed indigence by the straining of all the machinery in the world? That is Burke, sir Burke: who, by the fribbles of his own day, was lightly termed the dinner-bell of the House of Commons, yet compelled the attention of all serious political thinkers "
An imperious, stern-browed, swift-striking man; who had dreamed of a new Goth Empire: The mean Hypocrites and Fribbles of the South to be coerced again by noble Norse valor, and taught a new lesson. My aims go higher!" Charles Twelfth's Grandfather, and somewhat the same type of man. No homage more; nothing now above Ducal Prussia but the Heavens; and great times coming for it.
Great names carry great obligations, and, for the most part, those who bear them to-day recognise those great obligations and endeavour without ostentation to fulfil them. The silly fribbles who posture before the photographic cameras for penny newspapers do not represent the real aristocracy of England. We must not, Antony, mistake a cockatoo for an eagle. Your loving old G.P.
'I can, the melancholy General gasped, 'I say I can I cannot I cannot credit your ladyship's . . . 'You are at liberty to call me Angela. 'Ange . . . he tried it, and in shame relapsed. 'Madam, yes. Thanks. 'Ah, cried Lady Camper, 'do not use these vulgar contractions of decent speech in my presence. I abhor the word "thanks." It is fit for fribbles.
'I can, the melancholy General gasped, 'I say I can I cannot I cannot credit your ladyship's... 'You are at liberty to call me Angela. 'Ange... he tried it, and in shame relapsed. 'Madam, yes. Thanks. 'Ah, cried Lady Camper, 'do not use these vulgar contractions of decent speech in my presence. I abhor the word "thanks." It is fit for fribbles.
When I think of that little deep-voiced lady gathering the choicest spirits of her day together, and keeping so many notes in tuneful chime, I hardly know whether to use superlatives of admiration about her or superlatives of contempt about the fribbles who crush each other on staircases and babble like parrots in an aviary.
The other carriage was three-fourths third class and one-fourth luggage, and did the real work; on its steps Peter stood and dispensed wisdom, between the junction and Kildrummie. But neither the carriages nor the engine could have made history without the guard, beside whom the guards of the main line even of the expresses that ran to London were as nothing fribbles and weaklings.
I have seen many scores of these young sprigs since, of these and their principals, and, mon Dieu! what fools they are! What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!
Many things here were at one time misapplied, and others were mere fribbles; still, however, in the tactics of the present day, in which in every combat the aim is to surround the enemy, the geometrical element has attained anew a great importance in a very simple, but constantly recurring application.
In all the varying breeds of beaux and macaronis and dandies, of bucks and fribbles, into which the fine gentlemen of the age allowed themselves to be classified, the one dominant feature, the one common characteristic, was the love for gold and silver and fine laces, for gaudiness of color and richness of ornament, for every kind of exquisite extravagance, every refinement in foppishness.
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