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A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth, as easily as primitive people imagined the humours of the gods in fair weather: what is she to believe in, if not in this vision woven from within? And Tito was really very far from feeling impatient.
As to my companion, he had been growing bitter and sickly with the pent-up humours of discouragement; all he needed was a listener. He was so absorbed in his talk that he did not at first realize that we had turned into his own long lane. When he discovered it he exclaimed: "I didn't mean to bring you out of your way. I can manage the bag all right now."
'Tut! will you baulk a man in the career of his humour? Therefore, that a man may not be ruined by his humours, he should be too dull and phlegmatic to have any: he must have 'no figures nor no fantasies which busy thought draws in the brains of men. The fact is, that the ingenuity or judgment of no one man is equal to that of the world at large, which is the fruit of the experience and ability of all mankind.
But, as with the cream-laid note-paper, the wrinklings could not be effaced entirely; which was more serious for Mary Ann. Not that Mary Ann was conscious of these diverse humours in Lancelot. Unconscious of changes in herself she could not conceive herself related to his variations of mood; still less did she realise the inward struggle, of which she was the cause.
Herophilus lodges the original cause of all diseases in the humours; Erasistratus, in the blood of the arteries; Asclepiades, in the invisible atoms of the pores; Alcmaeon, in the exuberance or defect of our bodily strength; Diocles, in the inequality of the elements of which the body is composed, and in the quality of the air we breathe; Strato, in the abundance, crudity, and corruption of the nourishment we take; and Hippocrates lodges it in the spirits.
It was one of the worthy woman's specialities that she had an amazing power of gratifying her splenetic or worldly-minded humours by extolling her own family: which she thus proceeded, in the present case, to do. 'No, R. W. Lavinia has not known the trial that Bella has known. The trial that your daughter Bella has undergone, is, perhaps, without a parallel, and has been borne, I will say, Nobly.
Some mucus nearly as viscid as the white of egg, which was discharged by stool, did not coagulate, though I evaporated it to one fourth of the quantity, nor did the aqueous and vitreous humours of a sheep's eye coagulate by the like experiment: but the serosity from an anasarcous leg, and that from the abdomen of a dropsical person, and the crystalline humour of a sheep's eye, coagulated in the same heat.
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE. "There is plenty of good Scotch character in the illustrations, and a quiet observation of the humours of a parish, with such annals as those recorded by Gait." ACADEMY. "An attractive book." SATURDAY REVIEW. "In saying therefore that Mr.
When I have left you, when you are safe for ever from my humours and my tempers and myself then, do not think unkindly of Keyork Arabian. He would have seemed the friend he is, but for his unruly tongue." Unorna hesitated a moment. Then she put out her hand, convinced of his sincerity in spite of herself. "Let bygones be bygones, Keyork," she said. "You must not go, for I believe you."
=The Defect of Caricature.= But just as a character may be ineffective through being merely typical, so also a character may be unsignificant through being merely individual. The minor figures in Ben Jonson's Comedies of Humours are mere personifications of exaggerated individual traits. They are caricatures rather than characters.
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