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...ly excluded as if it were—that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know bette... ...ly and said—in spite of the classical remarks of Huxley upon the subject—a bad word. Not a very bad word it was, but bad enough. And after that she wa... ... he was putting two and two together. He was the sort of doctor that is in manners, in morals, in methods and appearance, most succinctly and finally ... ...Sir,” in hearty tones. 120 The Food of the Gods II II II II II He had his bad days. There was, for example, that trouble with the river. He made litt... ...down. Where- 124 The Food of the Gods upon young Caddies, remembering his manners, did put them down politely and very carefully, and conveniently ne... ...down in the chalk pits there?” His queer voice, the voice that had been so bad for school discipline at Cheasing Eyebright, smote the multitude to si-... ...ice and in order for every one, and ‘e’s got a ‘ead like a ‘og. Then their manners! One all consideration and the other snort and grunt. Which just sh...

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...s edition is issued, and an examination of others showed that they were as bad in their way. The “ Shilling “ issue was no worse than the costly illus... ...ome of gentle race. ‘T were strange in ruder rank to find Such looks, such manners, and such mind. Each hint the Knight of Snowdoun gave, Dame Margare... ...nd has won to-day— Another, gallants, yet remains to play.” The ancient manners, the habits and customs of the aborigi- nal race by whom the Highla... ...ad always appeared to me peculiarly adapted to poetry. The change in their manners, too, had taken place almost within my own time, or at least I had ... ...y recollections, was a labour of love, and it was no less so to recall the manners and incidents introduced. The frequent custom of James IV., and par... ...ow that in stretching to flog the latter, the rider is very apt to catch a bad fall; nor is an attempt to chastise a malignant critic attended with le... ... of gentle race; ‘T was strange, in birth so rude, to find Such face, such manners, and such mind. Each anxious hint the stranger gave, The mother hea...

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...nage unknown to antiq- uity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some con- ceivable... ...scourses about those of Paris and the provinces. He knows all the good and bad haunts in France, “de actu et visu.” He can pilot you, on occasion, to ... ...lustrious Gaudissart!”* No name was ever so in keeping with the style, the manners, the countenance, the voice, the language, of any man. All things s... ...time we may have an Exchange for thought; in fact, even now ideas, good or bad, have their consols, are bought up, imported, exported, sold, and quote... ...e lot of stuff, and I have wasted my time and breath on patriotism. It’s a bad business! Candidly, the ‘Movement’ does not move. I have written to the... ...ead.’ Thunder! you should have seen my gray hat, my dynastic hat (shocking bad hat, anyhow), who got the bit in his teeth and was furiously an- gry. I... ...sphere, the beauty of the climate, a certain ease of life and joviality of manners, smother before long the sentiment 19 Balzac of art, narrow the wi... ...r trodden, that we owe the soft compliance of these unconstrained and easy manners? T o such questions no answer. Enter this T urkey of sunny France, ... ... cried Gaudissart, who did not catch the whole sentence. “The ‘Times’ is a bad newspaper. If you read that, I am sorry for you.” “The newspaper!” crie...

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...so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of such universal property that it was quite fa...

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...e of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Bl... ...date, talking over a party. All three were complete gentlewomen in air and manners, though Betty had high cheek-bones, a large nose, rough complex- io... ...m, while the poor little cousins who had been put out to nurse had no more manners than the calves and pigs. People were the more flattering to us bec... ... mean that the family is coming down here! I don’t want none of them. ’Tis bad times for the farmer when any of that sort is nigh. They make nothing o... ...and serve him right! But there! They would all do her bidding, whether for bad or good, so maybe it was less his fault than hers. She is a bitter one,... ...ke-like neck, bent and protruded, and frightful screams and hisses, was no bad representation of his namesake the dragon, especially to a child not mu... ... ments. “Bless thee my child! Take heed to yourself and your ways. It is a bad world, beset with temptations. Oh! heaven forgive me for sending my inn... ...my curtsey like a London lady,” said the other child, the most advanced in manners. “Aha! little pitchers have long ears; but, bless you, they don’t k... ...m the air—be merry. He has not asked to speak with lady since he heard the bad news—long, long, ago.” Then Aurelia felt that nothing short of absolute...

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...ngham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which copies the manners and lan- guage of Queen Anne’s time, must not omit the Dedication t... ...ad ever been any other cause but cards for the duel. “I do not like to use bad words of a nobleman,” says Westbury; “but if my Lord Mohun were a commo... ... talk that night, when bloody Dick Hill ran him through. He will come to a bad end, will that young lord; and no end is bad enough for him,” says hone... ...s and women will conduct them, artfully, cruelly, feebly, and to a certain bad issue. The moral of the Jesuits’ story I think as wholesome a one as ev... ... booty lay. Indeed, Hounslow or Vigo— which matters much? The latter was a bad business, though Mr. Addison did sing its praises in Latin. That honest... ...n on which he was going; and as Chelsey was distant from London, the roads bad, and infested by footpads, and Esmond often in the habit, when engaged ... ...oung one, it was impossible not to love him, so frank and winning were his manners, his beauty, his gayety, the ring of his laughter, and the delightf... ...etty German prince for a sovereign, about whose cruelty, rapacity, boorish manners, and odious foreign ways, a thousand stories were current. It wound...

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...ngham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which copies the manners and lan- guage of Queen Anne’s time, must not omit the Dedication t... ...ne air from another. Esmond saw this fault in her, as he saw many others—a bad wife would Beatrix Esmond make, he thought, for any man under the de- g... ...ng he had when- ever he was with her; but as soon as he returned he was as bad as ever again. Truly a ludicrous and pitiable object, at least exhausti... ...uainted with a young gentleman, whose con- versation was so sprightly, and manners amiable, that she in- vited the agreeable young spark to visit her ... ...d though of no fortune to be sure, with a thousand fascinations of wit and manners, Beatrix Esmond was now six-and-twenty years old, and Beatrix Esmon... ...o go and bury himself for weeks away from the Queen, and with all sorts of bad company,” says Frank, with a demure look; “you may smile, but I am not ... ...d not even see the good looks Colonel Esmond had spoken of. The Prince had bad teeth, and a decided squint. How could we say he did not squint? His ey...

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...ngham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which copies the manners and lan- guage of Queen Anne’s time, must not omit the Dedication t... ... Hogarth and Mr. Fielding will give our children a much better idea of the manners of the present age in England, than the Court Gazette and the newsp... ...o my heart and think that I sin as good as my Lord Mayor, and know I am as bad as Tyburn Jack. Give me a chain and red gown and a pudding before me, a... ...ying if he did not speak roughly, she would, and his tongue was not such a bad one as his lady’s—a point whereof the boy, young as he was, was very we... ...which his muse bewailed his pretty lass; not without shame to remember how bad the verses were, and how good he thought them; how false the grief, and... ...is knee, and had examined all the points of his dress, and all the good or bad features of his homely face. “Y ou shouldn’t say that papa is not fond ... ... lord, and asked what ailed the gentleman from the country, and had he had bad news from Bullock fair? Between the acts of the play the gentlemen cros...

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...ave taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, t... ... the seven- teenth century, and under the slender modification of In- dian manners as yet effected by the Papal Christianization of those countries, a... ...tanding on a dif- ferent level of culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to social objects, a notion at all times false... ...dvantages, as suitors for the favor of two great heiresses; and, secondly, manners exquisitely polished. Looking to that last requisition, it seems ro... ...ntle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who had every possible bad quality known to European experience, and a solitary good one, namely, ... ...Schreiber was an aggregate resulting from the conflux of all conceiv- able bad qualities. That was the elementary base of Schreiber; and the superstru... ...ntendence of this they desired to devolve upon some lady, qualified by her manners and her connections for in- troducing the young ladies, when old en... ...rror rooted in modern minds is, that, doubtless, the moral instruction was bad, as being heathen; but that still it was as good as heathen opportuni- ... ...herefore, that Lord Brougham’s counsel to the Glasgow students is not only bad counsel,—and bad coun- sel for the result, as well as for the grounds, ...

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...dish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 That haue consented vnto Henries death: 14 ... ...m another Messenger. 100 Mess. Lords view these Letters, full of bad mischance. 101 France is reuolted from the English quite, 102 ... ...your Honors beare me company? 826 Bedf. No, truly, ’tis more then manners will: 827 And I haue heard it sayd, Vnbidden Guests 828 A...

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...mon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak?s appeara...

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... when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were n... ...y could never drag on fast enough. ‘O, man — fire, fire! A good master and a bad servant is fire, fire! — I mane a bad servant and a good master O, Mark C... ...ws high up in his forehead, who laid it down that the law of the world was bad, with a long suffering look through his listeners at the world alluded... ...ople in the face from morning till night; but ’twas no use — I was just as bad as ever after all. Blushes hev been in the family for generations. Ther... ...to look at, that ye might have been worse; but even as you be, ’tis a very bad affliction for ’ee, Joseph. For ye see, shepherd, though ’tis very well ... ...55 And Dor othy Drag gle Tail. ‘I hope you don’t mind that young man’s bad manners in naming your fea tures?’ whispered Joseph to Gabriel. ‘Not at al... ...said the company. ‘Thank you very much,’ said Oak, in the modest tone good manners de manded, thinking, however, that he would never let Bathsheba se... ... singer could not be set going again. Bob Coggan was sent home for his ill manners, and tranquility was restored by Jacob Smallbury, who volunteered a... ...utright. It was the removal of yet another stake from the palisade of cold manners which had kept him off. Bathsheba looked on from the ground whilst ...

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...e two must be twaine, 38 -- 37: As a decrepit father takes delight, 39 -- 38: How can my Muse want subiect to inuent, 40 -- 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe, 41 -- 40: Take all my loues, my loue, yea take them all, 42 -- 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits, 43 -- 42: That thou hast her is not all my griefe, 44 -- 43: When most I winke then doe mine ey...

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...e want subiect to inuent . . . . . . . . . . 41 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe . . . . . . . . . . 42 40: Take all my loues, my loue,... ...most, which can say more . . . . . . . . . . 87 85: My toung-tide Muse in manners holds her still . . . . . . . . . . . 88 86: Was it the proud full... ...use want subiect to inuent Shakespeare: Sonnets 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe, When thou a... ...raising him here who doth hence remaine. - 41 - 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe Shakespeare: Sonnets 40: Take all my loues, my loue, y... ...es, to show what welth she had, In daies long since, before these last so bad. - 69 - 67: Ah wherefore with infection should he liue Shakespeare: So... ...my brow, For what care I who calles me well or ill, So you ore-greene my bad, my good alow? You are my All the world, and I must striue, To know m... ...s indigest, Such cherubines as your sweet selfe resemble, Creating euery bad a perfect best As fast as obiects to his beames assemble: Oh tis the ... ...ood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies; Which in their wils count bad what I think good? Noe, I am that I am, and they that leuell At my ab... ...must not be shown Vnlesse this general euill they maintaine, All men are bad and in their badnesse raigne. - 123 - 121: Tis better to be vile then ...

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... you I’m a gentleman.’ ‘Well, if I pick up a gentleman, I can’t be doing a bad busi- ness,’ said the man, hauling him in tenderly. Heriot sung to me i... ... his arm since we first saw him. T wo boys named Hackman and Montague, not bad fellows, grew desirous of a whiff from his pipe. They had it, and lay d... ...I like you for it; pluck’s Beltham. Have a will of your own. Sweat out the bad blood. Here, drink my health, Harry. You’re three parts Beltham, at lea... ...rish none.’ T emple and I followed him out of the house, fascinated by his manners and oddness. He invited us to jump into the chariot beside him. We ... ...d he would like to have us both on board his ship, but that times were too bad for him to offer us a prospect of promotion. ‘Spin round the decanters,... ...le, my mate, when you rise, for he was the in- strument of saving you from bad company. If this was a ves- sel where you ‘d hear an oath or smell the ... ...share was matter of speculation to us. It was an education for him in good manners, and when we were sitting at dinner we wished our companions had en... ...ated and courtly Mr. Richmond Roy, known no less by the fascination of his manners than by his roman- tic history …’ ‘—has very soon succeeded in maki... ...nglishman.’ ‘Nothing of the sort, child. I compliment him on his looks and manners; he is the only one of his race who does not appear to have marched...

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...to your brilliant brother; for Mr. Cockerel explains that he means it (the bad effect of Paris) chiefly of the men. In fact, he means the bad effect o... ...as afraid of me! Of course, too, if talk is more innocent in this country, manners are so, to begin with. The liberty of the young people is the stron... ...know why they should be, for there is really nothing here to be afraid of. Manners are very gentle, very humane; the democratic system deprives people... ...hing or have occasion to make an inquiry. With them you need all your best manners, for you must always have enough for two. If you think we are too d... ...ciable time a corresponding change in the somewhat rigid fabric of English manners. I am not even prepared to affirm that such a change is desirable; ... ...they shuffle about; there are blue tones in their dark masks. They have no manners; they address you, but they don’t answer you; they plant them- selv... ...ber 5. I give you my little notes; you must make allowances for haste, for bad inns, for the perpetual scramble, for ill- humour. Everywhere the same ... ...ows in your sides; they squeeze past you every half-hour. It was one of my bad moments; I have a great many in Europe. The conventional perfunc- tory ... ...re discriminating, more familiar with realities. As for manners, there are bad manners every- where, but an aristocracy is bad manners organised. (I d...

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...nks one would be. They are curiously, interestingly , almost enthrallingly bad. Couched 10 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix for the most pa... ...le Pirate, and not only gives an account of his crimes, early history, and manners (which seem to have been a little robustious for such a mild-manner... ...the Duchess of “Sommerset” (a piece of actual scandalum magnatum nearly as bad as Balzac’s cool use in his acknowledged work of the title “Lord Dudley... ...to the scenery of T ouraine, which some- times inspires him with his least bad passages. It is generally agreed that these singular Oeuvres de Jeuness... ...th a single man of letters, so far as I can remember. His scheme was not a bad one, indeed it was one which has brought much money to other pockets si... ...fact that we have abundant critical work of his, and that it is nearly all bad. Now and then we have an acute remark in his own special sphere; but as... ...t least to our eyes, always and in every age alike; whereas the dress, the manners, the speech, the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a citiz... ...in Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, have forgotten to give us a history of manners? The fragment of Petronius on the private life of the Romans excite... ...ory that the Abbe Barthelemy devoted his life to a reconstruction of Greek manners in Le Jeune Anacharsis. But how could such a drama, with the four o...

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... Our second Charles was the patron, of like benignity , of our Com- edy of Manners, which began similarly as a combative per- formance, under a licenc... ...s posi- tion, Comic genius would flourish. Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be im- aged in the person of a blowsy country girl—say Hoyden... ...an is the flag and symbol of the society giving us our so-called Comedy of Manners, or Comedy of the manners of South-sea Islanders under city veneer;... ... better than they should be: and they will not, when they have improved in manners, care much to see themselves as they once were. That comes of reali... ...en. Y ou may distinguish them by a favourite phrase: ‘Surely we are not so bad!’ and the remark: ‘If that is human nature, save us from it!’ as if it ... ...is ear. And how difficult it is for writers to disentangle themselves from bad traditions is no- ticeable when we find Goldsmith, who had grave comman... ...ot even approaching to the presentable in farce. 13 George Meredith These bad traditions of Comedy affect us not only on the stage, but in our litera... ...sts are not needed to demonstrate that we can very soon have too much of a bad thing. A Centenarian does not necessarily provoke the Comic idea, nor d... ...n is Orson, or the mob, or a marching army, in defence of a good case or a bad—a big or a little. His irony is a missile of terrific tonnage: sarcasm ...

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... of Little Britain been grievously disturbed, and its golden sim plicity of manners threatened with total subversion by the aspiring family of a reti... ... ever heard of in Little Britain; and they took to reading nov els, talking bad French, and playing upon the piano. Their brother, too, who had been ... ... the community was merely the overflowing of their zeal for good old English manners, and their horror of innovation; and I applauded the silent conte... ...ly an advantage of them in the fashionable career. They could speak a little bad French, play the piano, dance quadrilles, and had formed high acquain... ...tually looking out for some other nest in this great city, where old English manners are still kept up; where French is neither eaten, drunk, danced, ...

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...n of unexceptionable character, easy for- tune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-deny... ...ess, and, before the end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance. S... ...She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquain- tance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her... ..., and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners. It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking;... ...ld man. Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.” “Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more impo... ... grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and dis- gusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkw... ...nking of nothing but profit and loss.” “Will he, indeed? That will be very bad.” “How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the c... ..., “of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing.” “ A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?— why so?” “I... ... no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object. I should li...

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... good for- tune in having such friends.” “Should her disposition be really bad,” said Sir Thomas, “we must not, for our own children’s sake, continue ... ...ing so stupid?” “My dear,” their considerate aunt would reply, “it is very bad, but you must not expect everybody to be as forward and quick at learni... ...elieved, had never been wanting in comforts of any sort, had never borne a bad character in her time, but this was a way of going on that she could no... ...nd he took his eldest son with him, in the hope of detaching him from some bad connexions at home. They left England with the probability of being nea... ...ed their horses every fine day, and had no idea of carrying their obliging manners to the sacrifice of any real pleasure, that time, of course, never ... ...arkably pretty; Henry, though not hand- some, had air and countenance; the manners of both were lively and pleasant, and Mrs. Grant immediately gave t... ...attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawford’s beauty did her no disservice with th... ...ost from others, and are least honest themselves.” “Ah! You have been in a bad school for matrimony, in Hill Street.” “My poor aunt had certainly litt... ...such young men were not often seen together even in London, and that their manners, particularly those of the eldest, were very good. He had been much...

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...d beg’d the Knight’s Advice, Made him observe the Subject and the Plot, The Manners, Passions, Unities, what not? All which, exact to Rule were bro... ... not exact, but nice, Form short Ideas ; and offend in Arts (As most in Manners) by a Love to Parts . Some to Conceit alone their Taste confine... ...: But still the Worst with most Regret commend, For each Ill Author is as bad a Friend. To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways, Are Mortals ur... ...piece is writing well. Such was Roscomon—not more learn’d than good, With Manners gen’rous as his Noble Blood; To him the Wit of Greece and Rome ...

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...ive him what he wants. From the purely practical point of view this is not a bad plan, but it breaks down as soon as a moral issue is involved. They s... ...es between peoples who were made to understand each other. French habits and manners have their roots in a civilisation so profoundly unlike ours— firm... ... Vendˆ ome column weighs the relative claims of two Academi cians (always a bad stumbling block) as carefully as a duchess of the old r´ egime, broug... ... live. It is the regulating principle of all art, of the art of dress and of manners, and of living in general, as well as of sculpture or music. It i... ...hen France was still struggling with the heavy inheri tance of feudalism, a bad man and great statesman, the mighty Cardinal Richelieu, paused in his... ...nise and unite society. And he chose “taste”—taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— as the fusing principle of his new Academy. The traditional poi... ...as to maintain from generation to generation a national conservatory of good manners and good speech.” For this reason, though Frenchmen have always l... ...e it. They regard it as a gift so magnificent that they are ready to take the bad weather with the fine rather than miss a day of the golden year. It is... ... it, to pretend to have it, and to try and talk its language —which is not a bad way of beginning to acquire it. FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 29 The...