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They are not "superior" like Romola, nor flighty and destitute of taste like Maggie Tulliver; among Fielding's crowd of fribbles and sots and oafs they carry that pure moly of the Lady in "Comus."
Although robustious, our fribbles were harmless enough ebullitions of animal spirit, sometimes perhaps of gaiety unguarded though each shade, treading the Celestian way, as most of them do, and recurring to those Noctes Ambrosianae, might e'en repeat to the other the words on a memorable occasion addressed by Curran to Lord Avonmore: "We spent them not in toys or lust or wine; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence and poesy Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine."
True, fribbles will say, 'Fie! the vocabulary of fine gentlemen has no harsh terms for women. Gallants, to whom love is pastime, leave or are left with elegant sorrow and courtly bows. Madam, I was never such airy gallant.
Although robustious, our fribbles were harmless enough ebullitions of animal spirit, sometimes perhaps of gaiety unguarded though each shade, treading the Celestian way, as most of them do, and recurring to those Noctes Ambrosianæ, might e'en repeat to the other the words on a memorable occasion addressed by Curran to Lord Avonmore: "We spent them not in toys or lust or wine; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence and poesy Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine."
He liked Cobden and hated Bright. The reason for this he makes quite plain. He thinks he detected in Cobden a deprecatory manner a recognition of the sublime truth that he, Richard Cobden, had not been half so well educated as the mob of Tories he was addressing. Bright, on the other band, was fat and rude, and thought that most country gentlemen and town-bred wits were either fools or fribbles.
There is a study of the human mind, in health and in disease, which calls for as much respect as any other study conscientiously and capably pursued; that it lends occasion to fribbles and knaves is no argument against any honest tendency of thought.
The dry dull person who devours blue-books and figures may mock at their fribbles; but persons who are tolerant take large and gentle views, and they indulge the dandy, and let him strut for his day unmolested, until the pressing hints given by the years cause him to modify his splendours and sink into unassuming sobriety of demeanour and raiment. June, 1888.
A man to whom emotion, passion, self-sacrifice, are things to be mentioned with a curl of the lip, departs on a campaign, and amid squalor, peril, and grim horrors he becomes totally unselfish. Men who have watched our splendid military officers in the field are apt to think that a society which converts such generous souls into self-seeking fribbles must be merely poisonous.
He seems to have charmed all classes: the learned and the ignorant, the cultured and the vulgar; great statesmen, poets, and even the fribbles of fashion were all nearly unanimous in his praise. The dissentient voices were so few that they were drowned in the clamor of applause.
Even our ancestral cherub and willow tree are better than that, or even the inevitable sick lamb and broken lily." "The people are poor," she murmured. "They do the same sort of thing when they're rich. It's the national Geschmack to stick little tawdry fribbles all over the face of Nature." "Poor little baby!" she said gently.
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