Men's future upon earth does not attract 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 them... The Psychology of Beauty - Էջ 254Ethel Puffer Howes - 1905 - 286 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| William Archer - 1898 - 496 էջ
...present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short - sightedly, plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and... | |
| George Meredith - 1897 - 120 էջ
...ness in the present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, bombastical. hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever...shortsightedly, plotting dementedly : whenever they gje at vnrinnpp wjfh f-heir professions, and ^iolate j^the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them... | |
| William Archer - 1898 - 500 էջ
...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 - 1898 - 130 էջ
...overblown, affected, pretentious, bombast ical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; . . whenever they are at variance with their professions...laws binding them in consideration one to another . . . the spirit overhead will look humourously malign and cast an oblique light on them, followed... | |
| George Meredith - 1905 - 134 էջ
...present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever...another ; whenever they offend sound reason, fair j ustice ; are false in humility or mined with conceit, individually, or in the bulk — the Spirit... | |
| Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1909 - 510 էջ
...present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever...plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance w1th their professions, and violate the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them in consideration... | |
| Kate Gordon - 1909 - 330 էջ
...pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it (the comic spirit) sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run...absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly," then the comic spirit has at them. The enjoyment of comedy is evidently very different from the enjoyment... | |
| Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie (bart.) - 1910 - 560 էջ
...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.... | |
| Charles Gardner - 1916 - 250 էջ
...Crossways. * Rhoda Fleming. « The Comic Spirit. proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short-sightedly, plotting... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 էջ
...present does : and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...variance with their professions and violate the unwritten laws binding them in consideration one to another; whenever they offend sound reason, fair justice... | |
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