And you're quite mistaken, Matilda, in supposing that Harry Meltham
admires you: I assure you he does nothing of the kind.
I just got to
admire the fine way it's being done, sir.
Thackeray says, "He who meanly
admires mean things.
He despises sentimentality,
admires chiefly the qualities of quiet strength and good breeding which are exemplified among the best members of the English aristocracy; and in all his interpretation is very largely influenced by modern science.
dame of Greece, whom all the world
admires for majesty, we should
Has he all that the world loves and
admires and covets?
And one
admires that sort of action in Kenn all the more," said Stephen, "because his manners in general are rather cold and severe.
There were plenty of pretty faces to
admire, but the young man took little notice of them, except to glance now and then at some blonde girl in blue.
The amphitheatre was packed, from the bull-ring to the highest row - twelve thousand people in one circling mass, one slanting, solid mass - royalties, nobles, clergy, ladies, gentlemen, state officials, generals, admirals, soldiers, sailors, lawyers, thieves, merchants, brokers, cooks, housemaids, scullery-maids, doubtful women, dudes, gamblers, beggars, loafers, tramps, American ladies, gentlemen, preachers, English ladies, gentlemen, preachers, German ditto, French ditto, and so on and so on, all the world represented: Spaniards to
admire and praise, foreigners to enjoy and go home and find fault - there they were, one solid, sloping, circling sweep of rippling and flashing color under the downpour of the summer sun - just a garden, a gaudy, gorgeous flower-garden
Most gentlemen would
admire her, I thought; and that he DID
admire her, I already seemed to have obtained proof: to remove the last shade of doubt, it remained but to see them together.
She gathered an apple and ate it; then she dropped to the ground with the graceful ease we
admire in a squirrel.
Yet at least we can
admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.
But, however, he did not
admire her at all; indeed, nobody can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going down the dance.
Excuse me my Sophia for having thus unwillingly offended you--" replied I--and then changing the conversation, desired her to
admire the noble Grandeur of the Elms which sheltered us from the Eastern Zephyr.
And more I
admire Thy distant fire, Than that colder, lowly light.
