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'Then all those persons, who differ in opinion from you, are puppies; and pompous gentlemen? 'Oh dear, no, sir! Only all those that are absent. The company, you know, according to the received rule, is excepted.
How many a time, as a boy, have I pondered over this or that passage in the originals, from Shakespeare to Suckling, and then compared it with the italicised lines in his two volumes, to see whether I had hit upon the beauties; and how often, alas! I hit upon the blots! That is to say, if he did condescend: for it looks very like the interpolation of some pompous declamatory player.
Dick threw his head back, and began to walk round the room with a pompous step and an air of great importance. "I hope we'll both rise, Dick; we've got well started now, and there've been other boys, worse off than we are, who have worked hard, and risen to FAME AND FORTUNE." "We can try," said Dick. "Now let us go out and have a walk." "All right," said Fosdick.
George now began to give way to a wicked sarcastic method, which, perhaps, he had inherited from his grandfather, and with which, when a quiet, skilful young person chooses to employ it, he can make a whole family uncomfortable. He took up Ward's pompous remarks and made jokes of them, so that that young divine chafed and almost choked over his great meals.
The Wilkins ménage, however pompous Mellersh might be, and he had seemed to Rose pompous, was on a healthier, more natural footing than hers. Lotty could write to Mellersh and would get an answer. She couldn't write to Frederick, for only too well did she know he wouldn't answer.
At the end of ten minutes a pompous, portly individual came up under full sail, cast a detached and haughty glance at the two quiet men lounging unwarrantedly in his path, and attempted to pass inside. "You cannot enter here," said Bovee grimly, as they barred his way. The pompous man turned purple. "Do you know who I am?" he demanded.
His tastes and habits were aristocratic. He loved gorgeous attire, a splendid mansion, magnificent furniture, stately festivals, and all that was glittering and pompous in external things. His manners were so polished, that there stood not a nobleman at the footstool of King George’s throne, who was a more skilful courtier than John Hancock might have been.
He talked loudly, and with a pompous dogmatism mainly on political subjects but talked only from memory; for any one could see, that thought came into but feeble activity. And yet, derationalized, so to speak, as he was, through drink, he had been chosen a representative in Congress, at the previous election, on the anti-temperance ticket, and by a very handsome majority.
"If your majesty cannot reform this, I certainly cannot," said Gellert, smiling; "I can only advise, but you can command." "But your poems are not written in this stiff, pompous German. Do you not know one of your fables by heart?" "I doubt it, sire, my memory is very treacherous." "Well, try and think of one. In the mean while I will walk backward and forward a little.
And with ominous significance, he approached the young scoffer, his hand on an exact level with the latter's ear, his right foot raised to indicate a possible means of enforcing obedience to his commands. On the whole, Master Courage thought it wise to repress both his hilarity and his pertinent remarks, and to follow the pompous, if begrimed, butler to the latter's room upstairs.
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