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Yet I find, that though they lavish their first fondness upon pertness and gaiety, they soon transfer their regard to other qualities, and ungratefully abandon their adorers to dream out their last years in stupidity and contempt. I am, &c. Florentulus. Learning a necessary Accomplishment in a Woman of Quality or Fortune. GUARDIAN, No. 155.
But I must say I do not wish to trouble your father you know he cannot bear worry but I must say, that if you do not listen to me, he must be spoken to. 'Why not Mama? 'I should naturally select my brother first. No doubt you understand me. 'Any distant allusion to Mr. Harrington? 'Pertness will not avail you, Rose. 'So you want me to do secretly what I am doing openly?
Her brilliant coloring, her gestures as fresh and untamed as the movements of the leaping river outside, the mixture in her of girlish pertness and ignorance with the promise of a remarkable general capacity, made her a most taking, provoking creature. Mrs. Thornburgh much recovered in mind since Dr.
Three days earlier, in the debate on the Westminster Scrutiny, Fox accused 'a person of great rank in this House' Pitt I believe 'of adding pertness and personal contumely to every species of rash and inconsiderate violence. Parl. Hist. xxiv. 924. Pitt, in reply, classed Fox among 'political apostates, ib. p. 929.
Harriot Freke is visited by every body but old dowagers and old maids: I am neither an old dowager nor an old maid the consequence is obvious, my lord. Pertness in dialogue, my dear, often succeeds better with my lord than wit: I therefore saved the sterling gold, and bestowed upon him nothing but counters. I tell you this to save the credit of my taste and judgment.
There was never pertness in Emilia's look, which on the contrary was singularly large and calm when it reposed: perhaps her dramatic instinct prompted her half-jaunty manner of leaning against the sunny corner of the house where the Chinese honeysuckle climbed. She was talking to Wilfrid. Her laughter seemed careless and easy, and in keeping with the Southern litheness of her attitude.
Clym saw nothing of this, and added good-humouredly "What shall we have to frighten Thomasin's baby with, now you have become a human being again?" "Sit down, Diggory," said Thomasin, "and stay to tea." Venn moved as if he would retire to the kitchen, when Thomasin said with pleasant pertness as she went on with some sewing, "Of course you must sit down here.
Friend, and the elegant Dr. Mead. Among the poets of this era, we number John Philips, author of a didactic poem, called Cyder, a performance of real merit; he lived and died in obscurity William Congreve, celebrated for his comedies, which are not so famous for strength of character and power of humour, as for wit, elegance, and regularity Vanburgh, who wrote with more nature and fire, though with less art and precision Steele, who in his comedies successfully engrafted modern characters on the ancient drama Farquhar, who drew his pictures from fancy rather than from nature, and whose chief merit consists in the agreeable pertness and vivacity of his dialogue Addison, whose fame as a poet greatly exceeded his genius, which was cold and enervate; though he yielded to none in the character of an essayist, either for style or matter Swift, whose muse seems to have been mere misanthropy; he was a cynic rather than a poet, and his natural dryness and sarcastic severity would have been unpleasing, had not he qualified them, by adopting the extravagant humour of Lueian and Rabelais Prior, lively, familiar, and amusing Rowe, solemn, florid, and declamatory Pope, the prince of lyric poetry; unrivalled in satire, ethics, and polished versification the agreeable Parnel the wild, the witty, and the whimsical Garth Gay, whose fables may vie with those of La Fontaine, in native humour, ease, and simplicity, and whose genius for pastoral was truly original.
The children went to school and met in the playrounds as before, but there was rarely a flash of the merry pertness of former days, and what had become of the boys' red cheeks and the round arms of the little girls? The poor drew their belts tighter, and the morsel of bread, distributed by the city to each individual, was no longer enough to quiet hunger and support life.
That did not trouble Gwen, however. She needed no invitation. She could invite herself, and she did. "I'm coming over to see you some day," she said. Inez giggled. She thought her new friend's pertness very smart. "You don't say you'll be glad to see me, but I'm coming just the same," said Gwen; "and p'raps I'll come to-morrow, and p'raps it'll be next week, but I'm truly coming."
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