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His brilliant, but withering critiques were more eagerly looked for than the most thrilling of his stories, and though the little, namby-pamby authors whom the gleaming sword mowed down by tens were his and the Messenger's enemies for life, the interested readers that were gathered in by hundreds were loud in their praise of the progressiveness of the magazine and the genius of the man who was making it.
To which passages Mr. Saltram listened kindly, with a very vague notion of the writer. "I am afraid she is rather a namby-pamby person," he thought, "with nothing but her beauty to recommend her. That wonderful gift of beauty has such power to bewitch the most sensible man upon occasion."
Browning's work than the absence of that trite and namby-pamby elegance which the last two centuries demanded from lady writers. Wherever her verse is bad it is bad from some extravagance of imagery, some violence of comparison, some kind of debauch of cleverness. Her nonsense never arises from weakness, but from a confusion of powers.
Way back in the primitive; no hint of those namby-pamby green meadows and set rows of shade trees that make most country towns detestable; rocks and boulders boulders and rocks and the scraggly pines for background. The wee brook has gone crazy. What do you call it?" "Little Bill Creek." "I'm going to stab it with my pencil.
"Some namby-pamby girl's story, I s'pose, since you're allowed to read it; or are you doing it on the sly?" "No, I never do such things, and hope I never shall; papa gave me permission." "Oh; ah! then I haven't got you in my power: wish I had." "Why?" "Because I might turn it to good account. I know you are as afraid as death of Horace."
It would give a wonderful shock, I suppose, to many namby-pamby Christians to whom the title "Mighty to Save" conveys no ideas of reality, to be told that nine or ten converted murderers were partaking with them the Holy Communion of Jesus! But the Lord who reads the heart, and weighs every motive and circumstance, has perhaps much more reason to be shocked by the presence of some of themselves.
She herself is looking so pretty, and she shows off in the most favorable light, while all the time singing her dear friend's praise with such fatal persistency that she fairly makes him sick of the sound of her name and of her namby-pamby virtues.
What use all! all must go to the heir-at-law, or I must will it to a stranger a lady of quality, who has just found out she is my relation God knows how I'm no genealogist and sends me Irish cheese and Iceland moss, for my breakfast, and her waiting-gentlewoman to namby-pamby me.
Take a glass of ale like a man or a couple o' glasses; smoke a cigarette or a pipe. Be like other young men. Cut a dash, and don't be a namby-pamby. After you're married you can be as miserable as you like." Mr. Sharp, after a somewhat lengthy interval, thanked him. "It's my birthday next Wednesday," continued Mr.
Patience and industry dignified it; a certain rough jollity, a large amount of good temper and natural kindness, kept it from being foul; but of the namby-pamby or soft-headed sentiment which many writers have persuaded us to attribute to old-English cottage life I think I have not in twenty years met with a single trace.
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