 | American fiction - 1926 - 550 pages
...half-closed lips drawn in idle weariness of half tension. . .. Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does...pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self -deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating... | |
 | William Archer - Dramatic criticism - 1898 - 496 pages
...half-closed lips, drawn in an idle wariness of half tension. . . . Men's future upon earth does not attract it : their honesty and shapeliness in the present...into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short - sightedly, plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and... | |
 | Book collecting - 1897 - 632 pages
...as the Reformer, or rather the Master of the Ceremonies. "Men's future upon earth does not attract it : their honesty and shapeliness in the present...out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombástica!, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever it sees them self-deceived... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - Drama - 1898 - 208 pages
...thinking in his exquisite description of the comic spirit: "Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does;...pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self -deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating... | |
 | William Archer - Dramatic criticism - 1898 - 500 pages
...present does ; and wheneverthey wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bom bast ical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short - sightedly, plotting demented!y ; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and... | |
 | Margaret Pollock Sherwood - Drama - 1898 - 130 pages
...being deeply responsible for deviations from the common road. "Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does;...out, of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombast ical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; . . whenever they are at variance with... | |
 | Ethel Puffer Howes - Aesthetics - 1905 - 308 pages
...use of the true comedy is to awaken thoughtful laughter." " Men's future upon earth does not attract it ; their honesty and shapeliness in the present...out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, boinbastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever it sees them self-deceived... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - Anecdotes - 1909 - 510 pages
...dart on its chosen morsels, without any fluttering eagerness. Men's future upon earth does not attract it ; their honesty and shapeliness in the present...plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance w1th their professions, and violate the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them in consideration... | |
 | Kate Gordon - Aesthetics - 1909 - 330 pages
...civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook." Also, in his " Essay on Comedy," he says that whenever men "wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it (the comic spirit) sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting... | |
 | Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie (bart.) - Fishing - 1910 - 560 pages
...are heaven-born keepers, are apt to be conceited, opinionative, dogmatic, despotic, and imperious, "given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities,...absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly." They regard with disdam the suggestions of the man who has learned his business by mere patient plodding.... | |
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Men's future upon earth does not attract s it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees... 
