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"Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." Gen. ix. 25. This prophecy of Noah is the vade mecum of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it; it is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion, a keepsake to dote over, a charm to spell-bind opposition, and a magnet to draw around their standard "whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie."
Whence should gazelles indeed her shape's perfection get Or yet her honeyed lips so sweet to taste and smell, Or those great eyes of hers, so dire to those who love, That bind their victims fast in passion's fatal spell? I dote on her with all the folly of a child. What wonder if he turn a child who loves too well!
Then Margaret told the story of Bill with intimate details and in the beautiful phrases of the poet mind she told it, and the flooding emotion piled upwards to the very roof. Love has rightly been pictured as a naked babe. Men together will examine a baby if they must with a bashful diffidence that pulls down the clothes each time the infant kicks; women dote upon each inch of its chubby person.
He and Kent are about of an age Kent, who when asked his age, as he comes back disguised to his old master, says, "Not so young as to love a woman for her singing, nor so old as to dote on her for anything; I have years on my back forty-eight" a speech which contains one of the finest of Shakespeare's minor touches of worldly-wise character drawing.
I just dote on being a Groome, plus Ballinger, plus. And I'm not guying, neither. I'd hate like the mischief to be second rate, no matter what I won later. It must be awful to have to try to get to places that should be yours by divine right, as it were.
We long to strike back at the human traits which have wronged us, and the satiric depiction of hateful characters whose seeming virtues are turned upside down to expose their impossible hearts feeds our craving for vicarious revenge. We dote upon vinegarish old maids, self- righteous men, and canting women when they are exposed by narrative art, and especially when poetic justice wrecks them.
The charm was some material charm, some afffinity, exquisite doubtless, yet superficial some surrender to youth and beauty and passion, to force and grace and fortune, happy accidents and easy contacts. They might dote on each other's persons, but how could they know each other's souls? How could they have the same prejudices, how could they have the same horizon?
Watkins Tottle, in an under-tone. ‘I dote on her with enthusiasm already!’ replied Mr. Watkins Tottle. ‘Gentlemen, pray let us drink “the ladies,”’ said the Reverend Mr. Timson. ‘The ladies!’ said Mr. Watkins Tottle, emptying his glass. In the fulness of his confidence, he felt as if he could make love to a dozen ladies, off-hand. ‘Ah!’ said Mr.
Are you fond of Moore, Mr. Ellery? I just dote on him." The last "hum ha" was partially drowned by the click of the gate. Keziah closed the dining-room door. "Mrs. Coffin," said the minister, "I shan't trouble the parish committee. Be sure of that. I'm perfectly satisfied." Keziah sat down in the rocker and her needle moved very briskly for a moment.
"My child," said Frederic, "it matters not for me whither I am carried. A few minutes will place me beyond danger; but while I have eyes to dote on thee, forsake me not, dear Isabella! This brave Knight I know not who he is will protect thy innocence. Sir, you will not abandon my child, will you?"
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