In the one was a forceful strength, in the other a refined grace; in the one brusque and savage observation and almost menacing sarcasm, in the other the wayward mood of the butterfly flitting lightly from flower to flower.
Afterwards, when naturalism was at its zenith, Fromentin was much attacked for this wayward grace.
The tendency to gloom and seriousness which reigns in those Dutch Romanticists has here yielded to what is simple and familiar, to the homely joy of the people of the North in the crisp, bright day and the wayward sunbeams.
Aunt Hitty's vocabulary was limited, and she had no language in which to express her full opinion of the wayward one, so she assumed, instead, the pose of a suffering martyr.
She was going to the residence of the oldest and most orthodox deacon in Thorpe's church, to ask for guidance in dealing with her wayward charge, but Araminta never dreamed of this.
A masterly example of Byron's command of strong thought and close reasoning in verse:--as the next is equally characteristic of Shelley's wayward intensity.
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
His guardians took little heed of the splendid but wayward youth--and knew not now whither his fancies had carried him, were it even to some savage land.
With his constantly recurring wayward attraction to a long series of women he retains throughout a deep and unchanging affection for his charming young wife.
In speaking of his sister, shortly before his departure for Greece, Byron maintained that he owed the little good which he could boast, to her influence over his wayward nature.
In this wayward career he was not checked by his grandfather, and is even said to have been encouraged to pursue a life of pleasure and gayety, while the earnest work of the government was transacted by others.
With his mother he was an inmate of the palace, and was probably a spoiled and wayward boy.
He lives in a log-cabin, occupying the centre of a small valley, through which the Tallulah river winds its wayward course.
To be in keeping with my wayward wanderings in this Alpine wilderness, it now becomes my duty to speak of the Roan Mountain and the Grand Father.
At this period I made no difficulty to allow him to profit by the Latin and Greek of the old rector; who had christened him, and had a considerable influence over the wayward lad.
Was he not saving her from her own undisciplined and wayward impulses, and from all the mischief that might arise from these?
Amid all the fervour of rebellious passions, and the violence of a wayward mind, a sentiment of profound egotism appeared to her impressed on every page she perused.
And yet, no childish thought With wayward purpose holds its transient reign In his young mind, with deeper feelings fraught; Then mystery all to him, and yet a dream, That Time has touched with its revealing beam.
Gautier found himself able to give an enthusiastic account of the new brother; the two truest Bohemians in Paris were at once bosom friends, and the most wayward of geniuses was a friend of both.
They parted: Algernon to counsel his wayward boy, and Anthony to write to his father.
Amongst his peers, Anthony Hurdlestone was regarded as a singular wayward being, whose eccentricities were to be excused and accounted for by the strange circumstances in which he had been placed.
If ever any one had cause to ruminate on the strange sport of destiny, that person surely was Councillor Moser; for wayward chance had played him as sorry a trick as could well be imagined.
Take me, take me as thy knight, Thine own cavalier servente; I will bear thy silken robe And each wayward mood of thine.
This with wondrous voice beguiled All my waywardmood until Thought and thinking vanished both In the music of the spring.
Now and then, though, over their morning coffee, Scott had a wayward longing to open the day's arena to her, to force her to look in upon the fight he waged.
Dolph Dennison laughed with the callousness of a wayward boy.
Reed yielded to a wayward impulse left over from his boyhood.
It was indeed a matter of general perplexity, to which the wayward character of Lee greatly contributed.
