It is alike impossible to withstand the contagion of Bobbie's Penguinity, and to fancy a genius so great that he does not at times yearn for the common walks and the common talks of his humblerfellow creatures.
But in the humbler windows off the Avenue there is an equal, if grosser, element of immorality.
The sum which they agreed to pay him was only fifteen hundred guineas; and out of this sum he had to pay several poor men of letters who assisted him in the humblerparts of his task.
They therefore, when the corrector of the press had improved the syntax and the spelling, were well received by the humbler class of Dissenters.
The princedoms of Almayne Shall wear the Phrygian chain; In humbler waves shall vassal Tiber roll; And Rome a slave forlorn, Her laurelled tresses shorn, Shall feel our iron in her inmost soul.
There is no reason why the humbler classes should not surround themselves with the evidences of beauty and comfort in all their shapes, and thus do homage alike to the gifts of God and the labours of man.
He would appeal to this stranger, whoever he was; there was more chance that in this rude locality he would be a belated sailor or some humbler wayfarer, and the darkness and solitude made him feel less ashamed.
His pride would have preferred a humbler suit as lessening his obligation, but there was no other.
The geography of the mighty Times was unknown to her, and even in her mother's humbler penny paper the City article was a portion she never glanced at.
Here is the humbler Portuguese; and yet is he not without a wealthy look.
He need never redeem the first, and it is given some folks to coin gold ducats out of humbler folks' sins.
Made hatamoto with fief of four hundred koku he was as well liked by his greater lord as when in the humbler service of a daimyo[u].
Above the entrance to the cleft the stream flows between humbler slopes; but they are still of rock, and the metalled road, which follows the western shore at no great distance, is without a prospect on either side.
St. Gaiane is an edifice of much humbler architectural pretensions, which is said to date from the pontificate of Ezra (A.
Apart from these humbler branches of the subject, in the middle of the 19th century the production of jewelry, regarded as a personal art, and not as a commercial and anonymous industry, was almost extinct.
Famine, the avarice of the rich, and the necessity of providing tribute had brought the humbler classes to the lowest straits.
He did not disdain, however, the farhumbler sport that lay within an easy reach of Birmingham, and I occasionally went with him to a favourite spot for perch fishing.
On the other hand, the upper classes acquired a higher sense of duty to theirhumbler neighbours.
To us, therefore, has fallen the humbler but important task of organizing here, in the heart of this country, and in entire secrecy, a power sufficient for the occasion.
There are several other playhouses, some of which are chiefly frequented by the humbler classes.
While, however, one remarks an inferiority to England in so many respects, he is forced to confess in one important particular a comfortable superiority; and this is in the aspect of the humbler classes.
There is a pleasant legend, in the humbler relations of life, to which I have listened, in earlier days, and which illustrates the principle, involved in these remarks.
The Tonstrinae, or barbers' shops, in Rome, were seldom visited by any, but the humbler classes.
In the humbler work his intelligence may make him a leader; in the other career he might do as much harm as a bowlder rolled from its place upon a railroad track, a menace to the next express.
Some of them subserved higher, others humbler purposes.
But to descend to a humbler sphere--our own minds.
Let those to whom Providence has assigned a humbler path, learn the duty of contentment, and be thankful that if they are denied the honours attendant on rank and genius, they are at least exempted from its trials.
Ye proud and wealthy, let this theme Teach humbler thoughts to you, Since such a reptile has its gem, And boasts its splendour too.
I still remain'd Untaught, still ignorant how fair thou art, My humbler wishes I had soon obtain'd, Nor known the torments of a doubting heart.
But the aristocratic Earl was already restive under the thought of any restraint--most of all the restraint of individuals belonging to what he considered the humbler classes.
He stood now upon the soil of the Netherlands in the character of a "Messiah," yet he has been charged with crimes sufficient to send twenty humbler malefactors to the gibbet.
Notwithstanding this failing, he was no sycophant or flatterer, but exposed the follies and vices of human nature, as exemplified in the characters of the rich and great, as in those of the humbler ranks, without fear or favour.
Education is in an advanced state, while the humbler classes of society have resources due to their taste for music and their sentiment for their native language, which have no equivalent in English village life.
According to local custom the humbler people of one lordship might not move eight paces from the road as they passed through a neighbouring territory.
Now he was more often than not of a humbler grade without any compensating improvement in morals or professional assiduity.
We're at least his very good friends, I as well as you, in my humbler way, Chancellor.
Being the Emperor, had you talked of a hopeless love and a promise not to forget, having nothing else to give me, because of your high destiny and my humbler one, I could still have been happy.
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