Thus perceiving a taste for a certain modern style of poetry in my companion, I bethought me of a poem which I had written on the roadside a few days before, and which, I confess, I was eager to confide to some sympathetic ear.
Perhaps before the end of our tramp together, I shall have a few verses of it to submit to the elegant taste of the reader, but at present I have not advanced beyond the title.
I'm afraid I was in danger of developing into a sad cynic, with a taste for the humour of this world.
She will do the same for you, and you will both taste great joys.
O snow with the odour of violets, O flesh with the taste of figs!
Play and opera at the time of their first production raised questions of taste and morals which have remained open ever since.
For the unspoiled taste of the better class of opera patrons, there is a livelier as well as a lovelier charm in the story of Almaviva's adventures while outwitting Dr.
The singer accepts a cup of wine, but, finding it not at all to his taste, he causes vintages to the taste of every one to flow from the cask which serves as a tavern sign.
Da Ponte was poet to the opera there when "Il Convitato" was chosen for performance, and it fell to him to prepare the book to suit the taste of the English people.
A poor little room it was, but suggesting in every detail the artistic taste of its occupant.
But they will not taste a bit like yours, I'm sure," cried Margaret, in despair.
At the crest of the hill travellers with even the merest embryonic aesthetic taste were forced to pause.
I can't tell, but somehow they give me a different tastein my mouth, just the difference between eating your mother's scones with rich creamy milk and eating fruit cake and honey with tea to drink.
Only," he had said to himself, "I must make her understand that it would be frightfully bad taste to seem elated.
One does get the queerest confused associations sometimes, especially of things one has first heard of in childhood, and I know your literary taste when you were a small person in pinafores was rather omnivorous, wasn't it?
One general taste prevailed of painting the sides and ceilings of the rooms.
It would have cost them almost as little trouble as the building in question, which may certainly be esteemed a masterpiece of ridiculous taste and elaborate absurdity.
An Englishman ought certainly to behold it with partial eyes, since every possible attempt has been made to twist it into the taste of his country.
Above, at the end of the perspective, rises a chapel designed with infinite taste and simple elegance by M.
Somebody must know how to cook, and I like to have victuals taste good.
By this time, Gramp had appeared on the scene, and he fetched a cup of tea to take the taste out of the Elder's mouth.
Obviously in many cases there are noble themes of art for whose appreciation no particular delicacy of moral or religious taste is required.
Mr. Laing is not regretfully forced into materialism by some mental confusion or obscurity, but he revels in it, and invites all to taste and see how gracious a philosophy it is.
Hence we find that the "Agnosticism" of Professor Huxley is eminently suited to the capacity and taste of the semi-educated majorities in our large centres of civilization.
Even though the means involve a violation of taste rather than of morals, yet can they be justified by the goodness of the end?
Some hands may be too delicate for this coarse work; but there will always be those to whom it is easy and congenial; and its utility is too evident to allow a mere question of taste to stand in the way.
In this, as in many other matters, the lower orders adopt the abandoned fashions of their betters, though with less of the well-bred taste which sometimes in the latter makes even absurdity graceful.
While such a rapid change might not be permanent, he appeared not only to have turned over a new leaf, but to have lost all taste for the habits and customs of his previous life.
As I looked upon her I decided that although Becker was exceedingly ambitious, his taste was discriminating, indeed.
Looks," thought Barnabas, "kinder eased off, like a dog when he licks his chops arter thetaste of blood has been drawed.
I've larnt that the law is a good foundation as a sure steppin' stone tew it, so you kin hev a taste of it.
It don't taste like butter," was the indignant rejoinder.
She, too, had had her taste of success; a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement.
What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes.
If you hadn't kept my mind turned to things worth while in the early days at Manzanita, with your music and books and your taste for all that is fine, I'd have fallen into a rut.
On the way across Park Row he had all but been persuaded by a lightning printer on the curb to have a dozen tasty and elegant visiting-cards struck off, for a quarter; but some vague inhibition of good taste checked him.
Is it really sins or only bad taste that offends you?
As the day drew near, Banneker had less and less taste for the ovation.
It remained, for Mr. Laurence to show us what can be done with scissors, needle, and a nice tastein frills.
In fact, what with tempting investments, the importunities of a highly luxurious taste in life hitherto unsuspected, and an occasional gambling flyer, his balance was precarious, so to speak.
He was courted, sought after, accepted by representative people of every sort, their interest and liking answering to his broad but fine catholicity of taste in human relationships.
That's easy, because I agree with it in most questions of taste and the way of doing things.
On the morning of the ball, Caroline requested her, half condescendingly, to dress her hair in the evening, for Mabel's taste in dress was very superior.
He had one taste which may be pardoned in a boy, but which, when habitually and deliberately indulged by a man of mature age and strong understanding, is almost invariably the sign of a bad heart--a taste for severe practical jokes.
The habits of his early life had accustomed him to bear privation with fortitude, but not to taste pleasure with moderation.
Narbonne was his friend and follower General D'Arblay, an honourable and amiable man, with a handsome person, frank soldierlike manners, and some taste for letters.
But his disposition led him to accommodate himself to the literary taste of the age in which he lived; and his talents would have enabled him to accommodate himself to the taste of any age.
What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions?
At fifty, his rhetoric was quite as rich as good taste would permit; and when he died, at almost seventy, it had become ungracefully gorgeous.
His works prove, beyond all contradiction, that his understanding was strong, his taste pure, and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen.
Charles early showed a taste for that art, of which, at a later period, he became the historian.
Its indecency, though perpetually such as is condemned not less by the rules of good taste than by those of morality, is not, in our opinion, so disgraceful a fault as its singularly inhuman spirit.
At one time, he broke forth in praise of the good taste of her caps.
One taste alone sometimes allured him beyond the limits of parsimony, nay, even beyond the limits of prudence, the taste for building.
The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's Essays, gave to our ancestors their first taste of an exquisite and untried pleasure.
Every rude centurion consoled himself for his intellectual inferiority, by remarking that knowledge and taste seemed only to make men atheists, cowards, and slaves.
After some experience in duck and partridge shooting, and a taste of terrapin soup, he proceeded to Washington.
Rarely, indeed, can we overcharged human beings feel as blithesome as the insect world; we seek to taste the apples of delight which turn to ashes in our mouth, and neglect to sip with them the nectar in the breeze.
When an animal catches its food in the water and swallows it whole, taste plays but a small part.
Our American crow is, of course, a member of this little community of birds, and that in spite of persecution, for in the spring one or two are apt to contract a taste for young ducklings and hence have to be put out of the way.
If birds have a love of music, then there must be a marvellous diversity of taste among them, ranging all the way from the shrieking, strident screams of the parrots and macaws to the tender pathos of the wood pewee and the hermit thrush.
The latter were those of an umbelliferous plant, oblong, tuberous, and in taste resembling a parsnip.
They sat down by us, and ate of the bread, and fish that we gave them without the least hesitation; but on being offered some of the venison, though they saw us eat it with great relish, they could not be induced to taste it.
Have supped on berries, which, when heated with stones in kettle, taste like lozenges.
Night, however, had not drawn the pall of brief death over the world so thick but that I could see enough to respect the taste of the late Sowee.
And this leads very naturally to putting the question in another form, namely, 'What is taste good for?
It will follow from this that the best taste is that which prefers wholesome food, and that by cultivating a preference for wholesome and nutritious things I shall be training my palate in the way it should go.
In the same way the sense of taste is a feeling of pleasure or displeasure in things savory or unsavory, and is associated with a desire for the one and a repulsion from the other.
We should probably find as the answer to that question that the purpose or function of taste is to discriminate wholesome food from unwholesome; that it is a matter of stomach and digestion.
The native too shows good taste in the selection of clothing after he has become accustomed to civilized ways.
Some of the boys and young men would come, clean and neatly dressed in European clothes, including hat and shoes, and exhibit good taste in the selection of their clothing.
