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But so little distrust has my pupil of his own abilities, that he has for some time professed himself a wit, and tortures his imagination on all occasions for burlesque and jocularity. How he supports a character which, perhaps, no man ever assumed without repentance, may be easily conjectured.
Diane," he went on, in another tone a tone of ghastly jocularity "didn't it amuse you, knowing yourself to be what you are knowing what you had done for Mrs. Eveleth knowing the things Bienville has just said of you didn't it amuse you to see me sitting in judgment on you?" "It doesn't amuse me to see you sitting in judgment on yourself." "Doesn't it? I should think it would.
The fat Dutchwoman behind me woke with a yawn, then, remembering all, moaned aloud, while her teeth chattered with cold and fear. Hans Botha went to his waggon and got a bottle of peach brandy, from which he poured into a tin pannikin, giving us each a stiff dram, and making attempts to be cheerful as he did so. But his affected jocularity only seemed to depress his comrades the more.
Ivey, says he, nudging me violently. 'I think not, sir, said the Major, with pinched lips. 'Well, I wish he may prove all right! continued the lawyer, with certainly the worst-inspired jocularity in the world. 'I know nothing by him! He may be a swell mobsman for me with his aliases.
"Well, my Lord," replied the Governor, affecting a jocularity he did not feel, for he knew how true were the words of the Bishop, "we must all do our duty, nevertheless: if France requires impossibilities of us, we must perform them! That is the old spirit! If the skies fall upon our heads, we must, like true Gauls, hold them up on the points of our lances! What say you, Rigaud de Vaudreuil?
His foot was on the first step of the staircase, which he now began slowly to mount, giving vent, as he ascended, to a serious of indescribable chuckles. At the top of the landing he halted, and leaned over the rail. "To think of Slocum refusing, that's a good one!" In the midst of his jocularity a sudden thought seemed to strike Mr.
Bulwer Lytton, the last of these admiring young men, left a note on Godwin's conversational powers in his extreme old age, which assures us that he was "well worth hearing," even amid the brilliance of Lamb, Hunt, and Hazlitt, and could display "a grim jocularity of sarcasm." One of these relationships has become historical, and has coloured the whole modern judgment of Godwin.
Lowten concluded with a loud laugh, half in jocularity, and half in derision, which was prematurely cut short by the sound of Perker's footsteps on the stairs, at the first approach of which, he vaulted on his stool with an agility most remarkable, and wrote intensely. The greeting between Mr.
See ante, ii. 450, where Johnson said of Burke: 'His stream of mind is perpetual; and Boswell's Hebrides post,, v. 32, and Prior's Life of Burke, fifth edition, p. 58. Kennel is a strong word to apply to Burke; but, in his jocularity, he sometimes 'let himself down' to indelicate stories. In the House of Commons he had told one and a very stupid one too not a year before. Parl. Hist, xxiii. 918.
We are told that COMINES the historian, when residing at the court of the Count de Charolois, afterwards Duke of Burgundy, one day returning from hunting, with inconsiderate jocularity sat down before the Count, and ordered the prince to pull off his boots.
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