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One street after another opened up its perspective of destruction. The strange antics that shell fire plays had left doors and lintels standing without buildings, had left intact here and there pieces of furniture. There was an occasional picture on an exposed wall; iron street lamps had been twisted into travesties; whole panes of glass remained in façades behind which the buildings were gone.
26: The y, in Pygmalion, seems to us not without cause to be changed by Marston into an i. 27: The number of metaphors used by Shakspere in 'Venus and Adonis, which Marston travesties, is strikingly large. 28: A few instances may here be given of the coarseness with which Dekker pays back Jonson for his personal allusions.
If one take up a Northern or Southern literary periodical of forty or fifty years ago, he will find it filled with wordy, windy, flowery 'eloquence, romanticism, sentimentality all imitated from Sir Walter, and sufficiently badly done, too innocent travesties of his style and methods, in fact.
"The braggart feebleness which travesties strength, the immoral claim which swaggers in the sanctity of historical right, the timidity which shelters its indecision behind empty and formal excuses, never were more despised than by the great Prussian King," so H. v. Treitschke tells us.
The sky overhead was all dull gray: a formless gray sea-mist hurried across it, driven by the east wind, which found time as well to fill, as it passed, all the fluttering garments on the line and swell them into ridiculous travesties of the bodies they belonged to, tossing them the while with high mockery into all manner of weird contortions.
American undergraduates are the most conservative folk in the world; if any strange theory in morals or politics becomes noised abroad, the American student opposes to it the one time-honoured weapon of the conservative from Aristophanes down, burlesque. Mock processions and absurd travesties of "the latest thing" in politics are a feature of every academic year at an American university.
With a flair of understanding, thinking of those three travesties of husbands and the wife who was no wife, I perceived what he meant. I left him. He was a wild man, but the quality of his wildness showed itself in the fact that he squandered none of it in shaking the bars, shouting, or flinging about. His voice to the last, trailing me around the next corner, held to the same key, almost subdued.
We carefully studied the gargoyles round the roof, and, in spite of defacements, made out most of them here a grinning demon with a struggling human being in its clutch there an odd beast, part human, part pig, clothed in a kind of jacket, playing a harp dozens of comic, hideous, heterogeneous figures in various attitudes and travesties.
Amid these mute, gray travesties of antiquity and the tastes of his ancestors, the Duc de Puysange exulted. "Ma foi, will life never learn to improve upon the extravagancies of romance? Why, it is the old story, the hackneyed story of the husband and wife who fall in love with each other! Life is a very gross plagiarist.
I suppose he could not get his arms down to do it. I have no pity for such travesties upon human nature. If you have not capital, young man, I am glad of it. What you need is common sense, not copper cents. The best thing I can do is to illustrate by actual facts well-known to you all. A. T. Stewart, a poor boy in New York, had $1.50 to begin life on.
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