But nature, it seems, has not been so expert a school-mistress; and these politer pleasures are entirely the productions of art and reason on our side of the globe.
It here contracts a kind of brutality and rustick fierceness, to which men of politer conversation are wholly strangers.
The distant situation of the Theatres from the politer streets, and the difficulty with which ladies reach their carriages or chairs.
Long before I was of age, I was initiated into politer mysteries of our capital than those celebrated by Eugene Sue.
The English are very polite, far politer than they have been represented, and they will not wittingly wound the American visitor, unless for just cause, like business, or the truth.
Can I rob myself of so many conflicting beauties by the precipitate charmer-pitying folly, by which a politer man [thou knowest, lovely, that I am no polite man!
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that the Worriers may not be permitted to inhabit the politer Parts of the Town; and that Round-Court may remain a Receptacle for Buyers of a more soft Education.
Were our English Stage but half so virtuous as that of the Greeks or Romans, we should quickly see the Influence of it in the Behaviour of all the Politer Part of Mankind.
In the mean time, I have related this Combat of the Lion, to show what are at present the reigning Entertainments of the Politer Part of Great Britain.
The Misfortunes of my Family forced me up to Town, where a Profession of the politer sort has protected me against Infamy and Want.
The Stateliness and Gravity of the Spaniards shews itself to Perfection in the Solemnity of their Language, and the blunt honest Humour of the Germans sounds better in the Roughness of the High Dutch, than it would in a politer Tongue.
It here contracts a kind of Brutality and rustick Fierceness, to which Men of a politer Conversation are wholly Strangers.
Belle, "you're a dreadful anti-politer this morning.
Gracie's self-sufficiency was so great that only a very hard blow could overthrow it, even for a moment; and Lily was too much afraid of being considered an anti-politer to speak her mind as plainly as she might otherwise have done.
Behold the schools in which plebeian minds, Once simple, are initiated in arts Which some may practise with politer grace, But none with readier skill!
Well, I think it would of been politer to have let us know before they spoke to each other about it!
In the common Theatre the Guests are at home, where the politer Forms of Good-breeding are not so nicely regarded: Every one there falls to, and likes or finds fault according to his natural Taste or Appetite.
My dear child, you do not understand dancing--you care not for the politer arts--you can get no more music out of a spinet than by pulling a dead hog by the ear.
Rousseau knew what he was about, as well as politer persons.
In the meantime, I have related this combat of the lion to show what are at present the reigning entertainments of the politer part of Great Britain.
The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself to perfection in the solemnity of their language; and the blunt, honest humour of the Germans sounds better in the roughness of the High-Dutch than it would in a politer tongue.
But the Normans, in this resembling the Gascons, have no special objection to a final consonant, and most vulgarly and perversely still sound divers s's and t's which the politer tongue of the capital dooms to an existence on paper only.
The gin-palace: Behold the schools, in which plebeian minds Once simple are initiated in arts, Which some may practice with politer grace, But none with readier skill.
Behold the schools in which plebeian minds, Once simple, are initiated in arts, Which some may practise with politer grace, But none with readier skill!
By these Advantages, then, we began to have an equal Share of the politer sort of Spectators, who, for several Years, could not allow our Company to stand in any comparison with the other.
In such parties a sort of domestic relation seems to grow up through their associated pleasures in sight-seeing, and they are like family parties, though politer and patienter among themselves than real family parties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "politer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
