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What an exquisite image of the Creator was this child! and he might call it his own, and if, as he intended, it grew up an innocent, happy lad, it would also become a genuine man, with a warm heart and simple, upright nature, not a moving marble figure, inflated by pompous self-conceit, incapable of any deep feeling, any untrammelled emotion, like his son Philip.
"Good morning, Richard," said he, very serious, very pompous, I thought. "I am pleased to see that you are so well out of the deplorable affair of last night." I had not looked for gratitude. In truth, I had done nothing for him, and Chartersea might have exposed him a highwayman for all I cared, I had fought for Dolly. But this attitude astonished me.
Do not you destroy in them what small grain of self-respect still remains. You fancy they are not so. They seem to you brazen-faced, proud, impenitent. So did the publicans and harlots seem to those proud, blind Pharisees. Those pompous, self-righteous fools did not know what terrible struggles were going on in those poor sin- tormented hearts.
We saw him again at the end of a stag-hunt. They had driven a stag into the Morteuil forest. The mort took place in a clearing in the park, near the outer wall. The Baroness, who always thought of the townsfolk, had ordered the little gate to be opened which gives into this part of the demesne, so that the public could be present at the spectacle. It was imperious and pompous.
That evening they had visitors from a fine house in the neighborhood, the owner of which, quite a wealthy man, complimented Dr. Wise on the good character of the boys, adding in rather a pompous manner: "I must say, Doctor, that since you have been encamped on the river I have had nothing to complain of on account of your boys.
"Well, Jack," said the pompous distributor of justice, addressing young Purcel, "how do you do? Take a seat by the way, is it true that your father and my excellent friend, Dr. Turbot, were shot at yesterday?" "True enough," replied John; "the bullet whistled right between them, and so close that each felt the wind of it." "The country is getting into a frightful state, friend Purcel, eh?
Neither the pompous little Lieutenant in charge of a provost guard, nor train guard, nor commanders of posts, nor the General in command of an army had any terrors for her. They were all means to be lent to the service that she was on.
His writings include Vision of Columbus , afterwards expanded into the Columbiad , The Conspiracy of Kings , and The Hasty Pudding , a mock-heroic poem, his best work. These are generally pompous and dull. In 1811 he was app. ambassador to France, and met his death in Poland while journeying to meet Napoleon.
What is really curious and amusing is that the people of all others the most vivacious, gay, and intelligent, should have always understood the grand style in this pompous, pedantic fashion. But it was inevitable. April 8, 1863. I have been turning over the 3,500 pages of "Les Miserables," trying to understand the guiding idea of this vast composition.
Well, when they took him downstairs, I slipped out too Je suis le balayeur, savez vous? and the balayeur can go where other people can't." I gave him a match, and he thanked me. He struck it on his trousers with a quick pompous gesture, drew heavily on his squeaky pipe, and at last shot a minute puff of smoke into the air: then another, and another.
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