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If you do, I can say, as his trusted representative, that El Supremo will heap favours, and bestow rich presents on the Tovas tribe; above all, on its young cacique of whom I've heard him speak in terms of the highest praise." Aguara, a vain young fellow, eagerly drinks in the fulsome flattery, his eyes sparkling with delight at the prospect of the gifts thus promised.
His enemies at home had sped their last bolt, and were fast becoming absorbed in their own sordid quarrels. The French King had abandoned the barbarity of which his own servants were ashamed, and addressed the honoured exile in terms of gracious and almost fulsome courtesy.
He will curse you if you refuse him drink, and he will describe you as an impostor or a cad; while, if you are weak enough to gratify his taste for spirits, he will glower at you over his glass, and sicken you with fulsome flattery or clumsy attempts at festive wit. Enough of this ugly creature, whose baseness insults the light of God's day!
'What should such fellows as we do, crawling betwixt heaven and earth'; 'coining our hearts for drachmas'; now scorched in the sun, now shivering in the breeze, now coming out in our newest gloss and best attire, like swallows in the spring, now 'sent back like hollowmas or shortest day'? The best wits, like the handsomest faces upon the town, lead a harassing, precarious life are taken up for the bud and promise of talent, which they no sooner fulfil than they are thrown aside like an old fashion are caressed without reason, and insulted with impunity are subject to all the caprice, the malice, and fulsome advances of that great keeper, the Public and in the end come to no good, like all those who lavish their favours on mankind at large, and look to the gratitude of the world for their reward.
His homily led off with such fulsome praise of Monsieur, that, from that day forward, he lost all his credit, and sensible people thereafter only looked upon him as a vile sycophant, a mere dealer in flattery and fairy-tales. Madame Scarron. Her Petition. The King's Aversion to Her. She is Presented to Madame de Montespan. The Queen of Portugal Thinks of Engaging Her.
We have no patron, so to speak we sit in ante-chambers no more, waiting the present of a few guineas from my lord, in return for a fulsome dedication. We sell our wares to the book-purveyor, between whom and us there is no greater obligation than between him and his paper-maker or printer.
But justice no less than courtesy demands that, until the work is finished, and sealed as a whole till the ne varietur and ne plus ultra of death have been set on it you shall abstain from a more general judgment, which can hardly be judicial, and which will have difficulty in steering between the fulsome if it be favourable and the uncivil if it be adverse.
"I note that the English Home Rule papers say nothing good of the bill. They are always praising the management of the Old Parliamentary Hand. They beslaver him with fulsome adoration.
But as a stimulus to conversation, an intelligently silent man is as instantaneous in his effect as music or eating. Men have become famous as conversationists who only sat and looked admiringly at vivacious women. It is a rare accomplishment, that of wise silence. It is more of a delicate compliment, more condensed and boiled-down flattery, more scent of incense than the most fulsome speech.
Gabinius followed him into his writing-room, and there said with fulsome smoothness: "Ah, great Caesar, thus do the gods punish with a heavy hand the crimes of the guilty."
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