The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or wordmongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or... denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites ... will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and openi...ng on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man's heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;Mit... requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women, accustomed to ease and refinement, to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry, and to elegant society, in order that you have one Madame de StaĆ«l.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion... where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in ye...ars. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich--that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The body Of... Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analogy between baseball fans and jazz fans is closer, it seems to me, than that between other audiences. The aficionados are ...aware of and concerned with the refinements of performance and the particular kinds of poetry in both solo and ensemble performances. (A beautifully executed double steal is as elegant as a Goodman arpeggio.) Like baseball fans, jazz fans know who played where and with whom and to what effect; they talk a rarefied language and drop the names of clarinetists and percussionists as baseball fans do the names of long-forgotten (except by them) shortstops and spitballers. Their retention of detail is prodigious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, wh...ich all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The African race evidently are made to excel in that department which lies between the sensuousness and the intellectual--what we ...call the elegant arts. These require rich and abundant animal nature, such as they possess; and if ever they become highly civilised, they will excel in music, dancing and elocution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »