Instead of the indignant coldness of a husband, offended by some casual levity of his wife, he will now redouble his attentions, and take an opportunity of calling the company to witness that they live together like turtle-doves.
And why permit him to introduce into our drawing-rooms, through the means of a quadrille band, a class of reminiscences which suggest levity in young men, and shame in old ones?
Inattention to study I can overlook, and thoughtless levity of conduct I can pardon--but drunkenness!
His transitions were rapid, from works of the most serious and laborious kind, to sallies of levity and pieces of popular entertainment.
Seem a fit theatre for Levity To play his love-tricks on; and act such follies, As even in Affection's first bland Moon Have less of grace than pardon in best wedlocks?
Anne, though she appears to have been entirely innocent, and even virtuous in her conduct, had a certain gayety, if not levity of character which threw her off her guard, and made her less circumspect than her situation required.
The levity and vain-glory of Maximilian were supported by his pompous titles; but were ill seconded by military power, and still less by any revenue proportioned to them.
Charlton Villa, the Princess of Wales would behave with a levity of manner and language that the presence of her child and her child's governess were insufficient to restrain.
They had to make up their minds about it unaided by him, however, for they never found any trace of levity in his countenance.
The levityof the Frenchman fled from his visage, and in his eye, as it gazed abstractedly into space, there was that steady depth so remarkable in the old portraits of Florentine diplomatist, or Venetian oligarch.
This may be called the result of levity of character, but it answers the end of reconciling us to misfortune, and if it be not true philosophy, it is something almost as efficacious.
Such was the levity with which public affairs were treated at that dissolute and disastrous period.
We feared at first that there might be some levity in this performance, and that the unrestrained spirit of the excursion was working itself off in social and convivial songs.
This country possesses a great number of them, who combine the talents required by the gravest magistracy with all the levity of the most witty and most cheerful bon vivant.
The debaucheries of the one served as a model to all the young rakes of fashion; while the levity of the other, was imitated by what were termed the amiable women of the capital.
You feel that there is a certain levity in this conduct not quite excusable!
Is it not that you asked Chance to decide for you what most men are led to by their affections, or at least their interests; and if so, is levity not the name for this?
His levity at last oppresses; his variety cloys, his rapidity dazzles and distracts the sight.
When girls arrive at that age which turns their thoughts towards the command of a house it is time for them to cast away the levity of a child.
I talked with Rupert on this matter, and was a little shocked with the levity with which he treated it.
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