These are the circumstances which explain the rude and vigorous scepticism of Diderot's first performances.
Chaumette apostrophised the assailant of Rousseau and Diderot with rude energy, but did not send him to the guillotine.
Above all, a saner criticism bids us remember that pioneers in the progressive way are rare, their lives rudeand sorely tried, and their services to mankind beyond price.
And it will be a very different thing to that rude Reformation, a medley of superstition and freedom, which came to us from Germany in the sixteenth century!
But not even the dexterity of Soutar could prevail always; and my grandfather must at times have been left in strange berths and with but rude provision.
In all these narrow streets a great multitude of people were passing us; some were laden with vines, others with young forest trees, and still others with rude garlands of flowers.
The brush of Vollon or of Breton would have seized upon her to embody the type of one of their rustic beauties, that type whose mingled fierceness and grace make their peasants the rude goddesses of the plough.
The whole country had an astonishing look of vigor--of the vigor which comes with rude strength; and it had that charm which goes with all untamed beauty--the power to sting one into a sense of agitated enjoyment.
The gossamer skirt and its spangles turned, for their début, a somersault in the air, and the knitted tights took strange leaps from the bars of a rude trapeze.
One end, it is true, had a gabled end; there was also an old shrine niched in glass beneath the gable, and a low Norman gateway with rude letters carved over the arch.
On each door a different sign was painted in rude Gothic letters.
On the tops of bastions, in the clefts of the rocks, beneath the glorious walls of La Merveille, or perilously lodged on the crumbling cornice of a tourelle, numerous rude altars had been hastily erected.
It is a rude Homeric epic; and I am not quite certain that it ought not to rank higher than even some of the more famous epics of the world--since Mathilde had to create the mould of art into which she poured her story.
Across the avenue, above the branches of a row of tall trees, rose the ivied facade of a rude hamlet church; a flight of steep weedy steps led up to its Norman doorway.
Rude and archaic are many of these early essays in the sculptor's art.
I enter a lady's boudoir in this rude and sordid guise?
In spite of his barbaric origin and black skin and rough dress, Durgo spoke and acted like a gentleman, though he certainly had been somewhat rude regarding the feminine sex.
Thus Percell's melody, though often original and expressive, is nevertheless more often rude and ungraceful.
It is true that, in the rude concussion given to all Germany and Spain by the French revolutionary aggressions, many changes have occurred.
He always reminds me of the mother-of-pearl shell, rude and unpromising on the outside, but by friction exhibiting a fine interior.
In the van came the oxen destined for sacrifice, led by men of rustic guise and rude demeanour, each clad in a white tunic closely girt about him, with the right arm bare to the shoulder, and brandishing a double-headed axe.
Melody in his day was rude and unpolished; for there were no singers to execute, even if the composer had the ability to conceive.
Just then he heard harsh and muddled voices, rude oaths, and jeering laughter, and above it all the sweet pleading of a little girl begging for a father's life.
In gathering cider-fruit we should consider it ripe at that period when a not rude shake of a limb would cause most of it to fall pretty well at one and the same time.
We had quitted home not unprepared for the suspicious looks which innkeepers might be expected to cast upon us, strangely equipped as we were, rude of speech, and so very humble in the style of our travel.
It was a hall of no great dimensions, meanly furnished with deal benches and tables, and surrounded on the walls, with some ruderepresentations of the most loathsome and horrid martyrdoms.
Much labour had been expended and considerable rude skill shown by the enemy in building bastions and other defensive works at various places on the river,--particularly in the Shabluka gorge and before Omdurman.
In each there were several rooms furnished in a rude style with articles of European manufacture.
His vanity was piqued that two rude sailors should be so uninfluenced by his learned discourse.
On the farther edge of this stood a cluster of stone-built huts, evidently surrounded by a rude but effective wall.
Some of us were quickly down with fever, and added to the burdens of our comrades, for they bore us upon rude litters of boughs.
They toiled along through a defile all the afternoon, and when the sun was dipping behind the western peaks came into a broad, cup-like valley, that was dotted with the rude stone huts of a mountain tribe.
His excellency wanted quicker progress to be made, so the boatswains commenced to chant a rude song as they walked up and down, and called on the rowers to keep time to the swing of the tune.
He pictured the steep, cobbled street leading up from the shore, and peeped into every remembered window in the row of rude thatched cottages.
Order began to be re-established in the eleventh dynasty, under the Entefs and Menthouthoteps, but the monuments found in more ancient Theban tombs are rude and awkward in an extreme degree, as Mariette has shown.
On the other hand, he was forced to fine down and almost to obliterate the suggestive contours of the living form by the final polish, in order to correct the irregularities due to the rude and uncertain nature of his implements.
Here Mrs. Lincoln died when Abraham was nine years old, and her lifeless form was placed in a rude coffin which Abraham's father made with his own hands.
And rude or refined be your wares, still be sure To deliver the goods.
The first rudelittle pencil sketch made by the child that has an inborn love of drawing is but a trifle, yet it may be the beginning of an art career that shall brighten the whole world.
Even when a cabin took the place of this rude "camp" it was left several years, we are told, without floor, doors or windows.
Prithee tell, Why leave the solution to rude commentators, Who say, that at home, you’ve enough in one Belle?
To those who had not the means of taking trips to Gravesend, or by railway, other places which were supposed to be exempted from the influence of the ‘rude commotion’ about to take place, were resorted to.
China and Japan, for instance, fill their galleries to overflowing with papeterie, furniture and knickknacks, while their space in the machinery hall is principally devoted to ceramics, a few rude implements and costumed figures.
You see he only kept it up until he thoroughly understood you, and then his real feelings appeared, and he was rude to you.
I should have to forgive him, you know, because I have been rude to him--often.
He was onlyrude to me to save me from myself, then, as Lancelot was rude to Elaine," she answered.
So Bruin resolved to try and be civil; and with this determination walked into the stranger's domain, and accosted him in as polite a way as his rude nature would permit him to assume.
Tom went first, cuttingrude steps in the clay hill as he descended.
Twas that he took unkindly, And makes me guilty of that rude Address.
Where hast thou learnt this Language, that can say But those rude Words--Away, away, be gone?
His progress, however, was stopped by the rude barricade which had been piled across the road, and by eleven o'clock the second engagement of the day was already being fought.
He wished to widen his knowledge and to see the great world that lay beyond the rudehaunts of the red men.
Brant meanwhile exerted himself in performing numerous acts of kindness, and did what he could to check the rude violence of his savage band.
Now, madam, we policemen hate to have to be rude to a lady; might I ask you to oblige me by following your friend's very excellent example?
