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One touch of nature makes all the world akin, and there is certainly a touch of nature about the colored man; indeed, I had almost said, of Anglo-Saxon nature. They have the quaintness and homeliness of the simple English stock.
We knew full well how anxiously and keenly many pairs of eyes had been peering over the sea in search of us, and we felt perfectly sure they had sighted us long ago. On she came, gilded by the evening glow, till she seemed glorified, moving in a halo of celestial light, all her homeliness and clumsy build forgotten in what she then represented to us.
That third volume, which ought to have been most interesting, is the dull one. We have Boz described as he would be in an encyclopædia, instead of through Forster, acting as his interpreter, and much was lost by this treatment. Considering the homeliness and every-day character of the incidents, it is astonishing how Forster contrived to dignify them.
Jesus sometimes used object lessons as well as illustrations, and for the same purpose, to make his thought transparently clear to his hearers. The simplicity and homeliness of Jesus' teaching are not more remarkable than the alertness of mind which he showed on all occasions.
A great mistake it was, on the part of Doctor S., that the second book in the Latin language which I was summoned to study should have been Phaedrus a writer ambitious of investing the simplicity, or rather homeliness, of Aesop with aulic graces and satiric brilliancy.
It involves so much labor and anxiety, its spasmodic splendors are so violently contrasted with the homeliness of every-day family-life, it is such a formidable matter to break in the raw subordinates to the manege of the cloak-room and the table, there is such a terrible uncertainty in the results of unfamiliar culinary operations, so many feuds are involved in drawing that fatal line which divides the invited from the uninvited fraction of the local universe, that, if the notes requested the pleasure of the guests' company on "this solemn occasion," they would pretty nearly express the true state of things.
That art will be the most effective instrument of moral enlightenment which reflects the experience of mankind in the basal and constant virtues, giving quality and distinction to truths which might otherwise suffer from their very homeliness and familiarity. There is a kindred consideration to which Tolstóy, undiscerning as he is in most of his criticism of art, has very justly called attention.
"Poor Helen!" exclaimed Rose, "how dispirited she seems how melancholy! I ought to feel afraid of your meeting her, I suppose, Edward; but I do not you have grown satisfied with your poor Rose. We shall be able to make her very comfortable, shall we not?" and then she smiled at the homeliness of the phrase, and wondered what Helen would say if she heard her.
"You shall starve no more," she said, "for here are the strawberries." The two ambassadors were striding down a rural path, their hands laden with small baskets of diminutive scarlet strawberries. At their heels came three dogs and one cat, acting as vanguard to a woman and a young girl, who carried blue china plates of most æsthetic homeliness.
He lived a life without aim, and apparently to no purpose; in this resembling most of his more gifted fellow-men, who, with all the tools and materials needful for the building of a noble mansion, are yet content with a clay hut. "Elsie, on the contrary, had been born in a comfortable farmhouse, amidst homeliness and abundance.
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