If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of ne...ws or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning,... In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; ...but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are only children of a larger growth.... A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, ...as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our assembly being now formed not by ourselves but by the goodwill and sprightly imagination of our readers, we have nothing to do... but to draw up the curtain ... and to discover our chief personage on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not ...grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example ... Agreeab...le, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honourable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »