Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Etherege, however, fierce and vindictive as he could be under passion, was never so utterly brutalised in mind as Sedley, nor so cruel in his humours at any time.
He learned this, and much more, thehumours of war, from the original of Major Monsoon.
But there is no fun in them--they are mechanical; they are worse than the humours of Scott's Sir Percy Shafto, which are not fine.
But this history has no space for the humours of this new exploration of London sights.
He should no doubt make acquaintance with them and see the humours of the country at first hand.
For some time she was not detected; her caressing manners pleased her patroness, and servile compliance with the humours of the children of the family secured their good-will.
The pith of the book lies in its singularly fresh and vivid pictures of the humours of the gold-fields—tragic humoursenough they are, too, here and again.
He liked the long, slow, apparently aimless day’s travel, the bivouac of the night, the humours of the drovers.
Does the generation which loves to follow the trail with Allan Quatermain, and to ride with a Splendid Spur, does it call at all for the humours of the days of the Regency?
The man who refuses to smile at the humours of Grimaldi is made of bad materials--hic niger est--let no such man be trusted!
Together with variety of Humours of several nations fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in Court, City, Country, or Camp.
Indeed, the comedy of humours itself is only a heightened variety of the comedy of manners which represents life, viewed at a satirical angle, and is the oldest and most persistent species of comedy in the language.
Malvolio especially later; though Shakespeare never employed the method of humours for an important personage.
Humours of Houndsditch, or Mrs. Shevi in a longing condition.
Humours of Houndsditch, or Mrs. Shevi in a Longing Condition.
The coarse humours of a spirit-cellar are served up with a tragic accompaniment.
Drinking, betting, squabbling, an irregular scrimmage, picking of pockets, and similar humours are treated with due appreciation.
The fun of the Fair is represented in full swing, and the humours of the scenes displayed on all sides are seized and hit off with the usual felicity of both artists.
According to the humours of this print four sailors, mounted on horseback, are going off on an equestrian cruise by the seashore.
Humours of Houndsditch, or Mrs. Shevi in a Longing Condition, ii.
The repast is in active course, and its humours are improved on with an observant eye.
The varied humours of Portsmouth are displayed with the caricaturist's native vigour.
And this, equally a trait in the temperament of Rienzi, distinguished his hours of relaxation, and contributed to that marvellous versatility with which his harder nature accommodated itself to all humours and all men.
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News addressed itself not only to the sportsman and actor, but also to that section of the public which finds amusement in the incidents and humours of the sporting world and the stage.
As soon as the people were released from the domination of Puritanism a reaction set in, and the humours of Mercurius Democritus were supplemented by the still broader fancies of Mercurius Fumigolus.
False fool and pretender," cried Lady Whitburn; "as if all did not ken that the first duty of a leech is to take away the infected humours of the blood!
A change probably takes place in the humours of the eye, through which their achromatism is affected.
Mr. Grove, with cuts Humours of Oxford, by Mr. Miller Jealous Wife, by G.
But in characters of modern practised life, she found occasions to add the particular air and manner which distinguished the different humours she presented.
At last he discovered a point of view in the back room whence he could watch the humours of the crowd without coming too closely in contact with them.
There is nothing, therefore, which contributes so much to the stability and permanence of a State, as to take care that the fermentation of these disturbing humours be supplied by operation of law with a recognized outlet.
Those to Terræ Filius, the Humours of Oxford, and Tom Thumb, have some traces of comedy.
The Humours of the Town, a Dramatic Interlude,” referring to the contested election of 1774, is of this order.
Trusler, 1786; and “The Humours of an Election,” by F.
The Humours of an Election” seems to have inspired not only artists and balladists, but playwrights and opera composers also.
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