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He loved his fellow-men with all the strength of his great nature, and those who came in contact with him could not help reciprocating the love." Another old friend describes Lincoln as being at this time "very plain in his costume, as well as rather uncourtly in his address and general appearance.
Although many of his likenesses were strong and characteristic, in the representation of beauty, elegance, and high-breeding he was little skilled. The nature of the artist was as uncourtly as his pencil.
He took an old brazen lamp from the table, and, leading the way, said at the same time, "I must be the uncourtly chamberlain, who am to usher you to a place of repose, more rude, perhaps, than you have been accustomed to occupy." Julian followed him, in silence, up an old-fashioned winding staircase, within a turret.
His air was that of a silent, proud, passionate man; and when he first appeared at Whitehall his rough uncourtly manners provoked a smile in the royal circle. But the smile soon died into a general hate.
Dyer, in his poem of the "Fleece," thus alludes to this incident: "... many yet adhere To the ancient distaff, at the bosom fixed, Casting the whirling spindle as they walk. This was of old, in no inglorious days, The mode of spinning, when the Egyptian prince A golden distaff gave that beauteous nymph, Too beauteous Helen; no uncourtly gift."
The opposite character of the Dutch had rendered them the objects of his aversion; and even the uncourtly humors of the English made him very indifferent towards them. Our notions of interest are much warped by our affections, and it is not altogether without example, that a man may be guided by national prejudices, who has ever been little biased by private and personal friendship.
Dyer, in his poem of the "Fleece," thus alludes to this incident: "... many yet adhere To the ancient distaff, at the bosom fixed, Casting the whirling spindle as they walk. This was of old, in no inglorious days, The mode of spinning, when the Egyptian prince A golden distaff gave that beauteous nymph, Too beauteous Helen; no uncourtly gift."
But Clovis hid the wound in his heart, and at the annual review in the Champ de Mars near Paris, as the king strode along the line inspecting the weapons of his warriors, he stopped in front of the uncourtly soldier, took his axe from him, complained of its foul state, and flung it angrily on the ground.
Then, bowing low, he turned from her, and thus addressed his intended antagonist: "Uncourtly Miscreant, The black garment which envellopeth thy most unpleasant person, seemeth even of the most ravishing whiteness, in compare of the black bile which floateth within thy sable interior.
I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen.
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