And a manlier lot of men never spoke in a manlier way.
These habits may have tended to engender a manlier independence; and to impart to their designs a loftier spirit of enterprise.
He was gazetted to a cornetcy; and entered life at an age when, if the manlier traits are ready to be developed, the worthless ones are equally sure to unfold themselves.
And our right, nay, our duty to call them such is fully approved in that the Poet himself seasonably outgrew and forsook them; a comparison of his earlier and later plays thus showing that his manlier taste discarded them.
And the eighteenth of his letters to Miss Brawne stands out in bright and brave contrast with such as seem incompatible with the traditions of his character on its manlier side.
Probably Browning had come to understand that in his relation to the past he was not more loyal in solitude than he might be in society; it was indeed the manlier loyalty to bear his full part in life.
Greek poetry strengthens the will or purifies the heart indirectly, by its truthful representation of the tragic situations in human life; Roman poetry appeals directly to the manlier instincts and more magnanimous impulses of our nature.
He had grown of late far more thoughtful than before; under Edwin's influence he had been laying aside, one by one, the careless sins of school life, and his tone was nobler and manlier than it had ever been.
Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
They were, as he thought, manlier in bearing, shapelier in frame, with greater intelligence in their eyes, than any he had earlier discovered.
He writes in the London News: "I have never seen a finer game played with a manlier spirit.
This has, at any rate, a manlier air than the vulgar obsequiousness of England towards the superior on the one hand or its cynical insolence to the inferior on the other.
The first we meet are Walter and Power--taller and manlier looking than they were, but otherwise little changed in appearance.
In fact, it would be exceedingly difficult to find a young fellow of manlier bearing or more striking personal attractions.
He was the manlier of the two, for Drury was a delicate boy, too sensitive for the approval of his Spartan fellows.
He thought that he was manlier than Drury because he was wiser and stronger.
In which of his manlier qualities was he so inferior to the Jew, that Hippias the gladiator should make a lowlier monarch than Herod the Great?
Tis a manlier way of getting bread than most of the employments I see practised in Rome," was his reply, though he spoke more to himself than his companion.
Yet this engrossing affection, stained and selfish as it was, constituted perhaps the one redeeming quality of the tribune's character; afforded the only incentive by which his better and manlier feelings could be aroused.
Ye knights and lords, men of blood and birth, were but the tools of a manlier and wiser Cade!
Verily, I avise and implore thee to turn thy wit and scholarship to a manlier occupation!
No manlier deed comes down, Blazoned in broad renown, From men of old who lived to dare and die!
Edwards, brought up in a manlier school, deals with such phenomena in a different spirit.
And certainly, whatever faults a critic may discover in the work, it may be said that no work in our literature places us in communication with a manlier or more lovable nature.
Haply from them the toiler, bent Above his forge or plough, may gain, A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is wisest spent Where the strong working hand makes strong the working brain.
With something of the spirit which dictated them, we renew our vows to freedom, and, with manlier energy, gird up our souls for the stern struggle before us.
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