Harte, a minor courtier of king Alexander, told Warton that the sensitive monarch "took the letter amiss.
It is not necessary to be a keen observer to remark in Napoleon the upstart soldier, and in Joseph the former low member of the law; but I defy the most refined courtier to see in Lucien anything indicating a ci-devant sans-culotte.
The address and manners of a courtier are allowed Marquis de Gallo by all who know him, though few admit that he possesses any talents as a statesman.
The Battler was a youth of great military skill and great ambition, but he was not a courtier in any sense of the word and could not be compared in Urraca's eyes with her carpet knight, Don Gomez.
If left to his own inclinations, the young courtier would not have desired ever to look upon it again.
In short the young courtier saw by his side a man that reminded him of a hero of Middle Age romance--one about whom he had been lately reading; and whose character had made a deep impression upon his youthful fancy.
The courtier gave a doubting nod towards the steed.
It was a pleasant anticipation for the young courtier to indulge in.
What should the young courtier care for such incidents as these--however significant they might be to the patriot, or politician?
For the first half-mile after crossing the Colne, the thoughts of the young courtierhad been given exclusively to his cousin.
He did not know that royal jealousy had been the cause of that sudden separation between Henry--and his bride-wife; and that it was an act of royal revenge, that had transformed the courtier into a colonist.
At times the boy courtier even affected indifference about his cousin's affairs; and more than once there was danger of a quarrel--or at least a coolness.
On finishing this series of reflections, the young courtier drew bridle, and halted for the purpose of listening.
The hearty laugh in which the captain indulged, chorused by Stubbs, sanctioned only by a grim smile on the part of grey eye, told that the sympathy of the latter for the disgraced courtier was not very profound.
Tis quite true," said a youth in courtier costume, who stood close to her who had thus appealed to him.
I stand not here for a contest of tongues; in which no doubt the accomplished courtier Scarthe would prove my superior.
As a characteristic instance of the courtier spirit, I afterwards learned that Luttichau, who had had to wait for me in the anteroom during this audience, had been very much put out by its long duration.
Dan'l saw Faith and Brander drawing together, day by day; and though he hated Brander the more for it, he was content to sit still and wait.
Titianus had failed to be present at the emperor's arrival, and keen courtier noses smelled a fall, and judged it wise to keep out of the way of a tottering power.
Melville was too much of a courtier to congratulate her on being able to dance merrily in sickness; but he wanted her to become godmother, which office she accepted cheerfully, by proxy.
Each courtier wore a rose behind his ear, and upon his shoes were roses also to hide the strings.
My fair lad," said the courtierremoving his pipe, and speaking in the broad soft accent of Devonshire, "I have not marked thy face before.
While she was thus musing a courtier approached her.
The courtier flew downstairs like a whirlwind, tripped into the room, and fell upon his red-stockinged knees to do homage to his sovereign, who rose majestically and extended a hand of pardon to the now grovelling peasant.
Verity, what was a courtier doing rambling about a forest in a blue dressing-gown?
This furious apostrophe, accompanied with visual lightning, would have blasted any courtier into dropping at her feet and sueing for mercy though he was a hero, a marshal, or a demigod.
Will your Majesty see in me not the courtier but the man of war?
Firstly I want to call your attention to Touchstone the courtier who is playing clown and who we are told "uses his folly like a stalking horse and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
He knew not yet that the courtier Victor was in reality nothing but a mere, flat parson's son.
Such a piece of ignorance is enough to disgrace any courtier on earth.
Never shall I think my countrymen half civilized while on the dress of a courtier is hung the instrument of a cut-throat.
He did: a certain proof that he no more took me to be a courtier than I took him to be.
A courtier is such at court: in the house of a clergyman he is not a courtier, but a guest.
When a courtier enters the house of a pastor in preference to the next, the pastor should partake in the sentiment that induced him, or at least not to be offended to be preferred.
Truly this courtier reads a useful lesson If not in his sense good, at least in mine.
This person had been ambassador at Vienna where he had ridiculed Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette's mother, and afterward a courtier at Versailles where he had criticised the Dauphiness, Marie Antoinette herself.
In short says the courtier in his entertaining Memoirs, "I never let Monsieur d'Orleans alone until I had obtained that he would purchase this stone.
It quite took Peggy's breath away when this elegant courtier bowed before her and begged her hand for the pavan.
She has sometimes submitted to despotic authority, but she has never approved it, or recognized it as legitimate; and when a courtier monk preached before Philip II.
In courtier dialect, he is now named 'the Nestor of France;' such governing Nestor as France has.
I am no Courtier of a light condition, Apt to take fire at every beautious face.
But what sayes the young Courtier Master Eustace, And his two warlike friends?
But what sayes the youngCourtier Master Eustace, and his two warlike Friends?
I am no Courtier of a light condition, apt to take fire at every beauteous face; that only serves his will and wantonness, and lets the serious part run by as thin neglected sand.
In its earliest version a passage which an irritable courtier conceived to be derogatory to his nation, the Scots, sent both Chapman and Jonson to jail; but the matter was soon patched up, for by this time Jonson had influence at court.
So great was the kindness with which she regarded him, that no courtier seemed to have before him a more prosperous career, when towards the end of 1635 the Court was startled by the news that he had joined the Church of Rome.
