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The event called forth the famous burst of misanthropic verse, ending with the couplet, To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; I never knew but one, and here he lies; and the inscription on the monument that still remains in the gardens of Newstead,
You'll ask why then we live here? Simply because we must. Some misanthropic relation left us the house we live in, which saves rent. "Yet, if you were with me, I think I could be happy even here. I don't venture to ask you.
You will see how wise the Count had been in choosing this disguise for me. "'What ails him then? asked the Countess. "'He has studied too hard, replied Gobain; 'he has turned misanthropic. And he has his reasons for disliking women well, if you want to know all that is said about him "'Well, said Honorine, 'madmen frighten me less than sane folks; I will speak to him myself!
For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
Curly seated himself on the ground near by and addressed his misanthropic steed in tones of easy familiarity. "Pinto," said he, "you remind me of a heap of folks I know. You think them reins holds you, but they don't. They ain't tied to nothing. You're just like them, hitched tight to a fool notion, that's all.
The peculiar evils of such a position affect young women very differently, according to their various dispositions. Had Elinor been weak and vain, she would have fallen into the hands of a fortune-hunter. Had she been of a gloomy temper, disgust at the coarse plots and manoeuvres, so easily unravelled by a clear-sighted person, might have made her a prey to suspicion, and all but misanthropic.
Tishy whispered, pressing nearer to Larry; but she was agreeably certain that it was the gloomy and misanthropic Captain Cloherty, whose place of refuge they had invaded. Christian, meanwhile, unlike Captain Cloherty, was conscientiously endeavouring to enjoy herself, and was finding that the wheels of the chariot of pleasure drave heavily.
Gall, the inventor of phrenology, took a cast of the little Liszt's skull; Talma, the tragedian, embraced him openly with effusion; and the misanthropic Marquis de Noailles became his mentor, and initiated him into the art of painting. In 1824 Liszt, then thirteen years old, came with his father to England; his mother returned to Austria.
"You seem to have looked on human nature through misanthropic lenses." "Yes; I bought a pair of spectacles, for which I paid a most exorbitant price! but they were labeled 'experience'!" She smiled frigidly. "You do not seem to have enjoyed your tour particularly." "Yes, I did; but one is glad to rest sometimes. I may yet prove a second Bayard Taylor, notwithstanding.
He owned a small fleet of schooners and native craft, and dealt in island produce on a large scale. For the rest he lived solitary, but not misanthropic, with his books and his collection, classing and arranging specimens, corresponding with entomologists in Europe, writing up a descriptive catalogue of his treasures.
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