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There is not an idea in it beyond what might germinate in the brain of a washerwoman. He then proceeds to call the author by such elegant names as 'lickspittle, 'beggarly skittler, jackass, ninny, haberdasher, 'fifty-fifth rate scribbler of gripe-visited sonnets, and 'namby-pamby writer in twaddling albums kept by the mustachioed widows or bony matrons of Portland Place.
It happened that he knew something about the author; he knew, for instance, that he was a married man, and lived in a pretty house at Richmond, and gave garden-parties, to which a great many well-known people went. Well, if this scribbler could make enough by his twaddling books to live in that style, what might not he, Merton, make?
In Thackeray's "Newcomes," the writer had some reminiscences of a place like Eatanswill, for we are told of the rival newspapers, "The Newcome Independent" and "The Newcome Sentinel," the former being edited by one Potts. These journals assailed each other like their brethren in "Pickwick." "Is there any man in Newcome except, perhaps, our twaddling old contemporary, the Sentinel," &c.
"A very pious manner of spending his time," Pen said, laughing and thinking that his uncle was falling into the twaddling state. "Gad, sir, that is not the question. A man of his estate may employ his time as he chooses. "And so that was his brougham, sir, was it?" the nephew said with almost a sneer. "His brougham O ay, yes! and that brings me back to my point revenons a nos moutons.
She was distinctly floundering by the time he had brought her it had taken ten minutes down to a consciousness of absurd and twaddling topics, to the reported precarious state, for instance, of the syndicate running the Bijou Theatre at the Pierhead all as an admonition that she might want him to want to know why she was thus waiting on him, might want it for all she was worth, before he had ceased to be so remarkable as not to ask her.
The stolid dunce is comparatively quiet; his crass mind works slowly; his vacant face wears an aspect of repose; his talk is merely dull and twaddling. But the talk of the brisk dunce is ambitiously absurd: he lays down broad principles: he announces important discoveries which lie has made: he has heard able and thoughtful men talk, and he tries to do that kind of thing.
At last the friends got sleepy, and, bored with writing songs and verses, began to yawn, and gave up twaddling about the woes and troubles of life; and as they were all silent, one of them, a man fifty years of age, stopping the circulation of the wine-cup, said "Well, certainly, gentlemen, thanks to you, we have spent the evening in very pleasant conversation.
And yet, as as you saw yourself, last night, in in the face of the assembled House of Commons, after that twaddling clap- trap speech of his, in which there was not one sound sentiment, nor an idea which which would hold water, she positively went away with him, in in the most ostentatious and and disgraceful fashion, on on his arm, and and actually snubbed her father.
No; not one of them. They are all eloquent, diffusive, rich, lavish, generous, prodigal of their words. But so are they all deficient in sense, muscle, sinew, thews, ribs, spine. Pope, as an artist, beats them hollow. Catch him twaddling. Tickler. It is a bad sign of the intellect of an age to depreciate the genius of a country's classics.
She would simply have dawdled along, twaddling about "art" and seriousness and careers and sacrifice, content with the amateur's methods and the amateur's results and deluding herself that she was making progress. Now It was as different as public school from private school public school where the mind is rudely stimulated, private school where it is sedulously mollycoddled.
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