Abigail Hill was a bigoted Tory, and her supreme desire was to ingratiate herself in the favor of her royal mistress, especially when she was tired of the neglect or annoyed by the railleries of her exacting favorite.
Little by little she began to exercise a great influence over the mind of the King when he was becoming wearied of the railleries of his exacting favorite, and when some of the delusions of life were beginning to be dispelled.
His displeasure was also increased by some railleries which had been thrown out against his person.
The Normans, however, who had raised the opposition to the marriage, and many of whom were secret adherents of Duke Robert, vented their ill-humour in bitter railleries and jests.
The old maid loves David; she provides him with food and sweets and many are the railleries which he has to suffer from his companions in consequence.
With this view, he must have felt that he was more likely to succeed by emulating the broader mirth of the old or middle comedy, than by the delicaterailleries and exquisite painting of Menander.
These heroic characters, however, were generally parodied, and rendered fantastic, by the grossrailleries of Silenus and the Fauns.
He adapted the ancient satires of the Tuscan and Oscan stage to the closet, by refining their grossness, softening their asperity, and introducing railleries borrowed from the Greek poets, with whom he was familiar.
Men of taste are sometimes disgusted in turning over the works of the anti-poetical, by meeting with gross railleries and false judgments concerning poetry and poets.
I shall notice his coarse railleries relating to what he calls "the personal defects of poets.
The greater number of the leaders rejected the proposition of the prince of Tarentum, and added their railleries to those of Raymond.
The fault therefore of the King made much impression upon the troops, and excited cruel railleries against us at home and in the foreign courts.
Upon leaving the council, Joinville found himself exposed to the railleries and insults of the knights, for having expressed an opinion contrary to that of the general meeting.
The proof depends only on this postalatum--that the comedies of Andronicus, which were imitations of the Greek, were also imitations of their railleries and reflections on particular persons.
And it seems to me the more probable opinion that he rather imitated the fine railleries of the Greeks, which he saw in the pieces of Andronicus, than the coarseness of his own countrymen in their clownish extemporary way of jeering.
La Riviere attacked me with railleries and invectives, and the messenger thought they were sure of putting the rope about all our necks on the morrow.
The Women love a gay lively Fellow, and are never angry at the Railleries of one who is their known Admirer.
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