 | 1820 - 524 pages
...had a fashion as rapid as it was momentary — all the court ladies were his scholars, and to parler Euphuisme, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly...understanding how to use his rapier or to dance a measure." (Monastery, vol. ii. p. 43, 44.) The good sense, and natural taste of the young Halbert Glendinning,... | |
 | 1820 - 866 pages
...had a fashion as rapid as it was momentary — all the court ladies were his scholars, and to ftarler Euphuisme, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly...the intricacies of this erudite and courtly style oi conversation, as she had ever been by the dust of her father's own meal-sacks. But there she sate... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1820 - 354 pages
...as rapid as it was momentary — all the court ladies were his scholars, and to parler Euphulsine, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant,...Maid of the Mill was soon as effectually blinded by thfi intricacies of this erudite and courtly style of conversation, as she had ever been by the dust... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...fashion as rapid as it was momentary, — all the court-ladies were his scholars, and to parler Euphuisms was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant,...understanding how to use his rapier or to dance a measure.' It is more than probable, however, that the real prototype, to whom we owe the rich morsels of pedantry... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 pages
...us rupid as it was momentary — ill the court ladies were his scholars, .and to parler Eupliuitme, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant,...those of understanding how to use his rapier, or to dunce a measure. " It was no wonder that the Maid of the Mill was soon as effectually blinded by the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...were his scholars, and to parler Euphuisme was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant, ns those of understanding how to use his rapier or to dance a measure.' It is more than probable, however, t,hat the real prototype, to whom we owe the rich morsels of pedantry... | |
 | JOHN BOHN - 1829 - 586 pages
...fashion as rapid as momentary—all the court ladies were his scholars, and to ]/arlcr I'.njilmhme, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant,...understanding how to use his rapier, or to dance a measure."—Mtntnstvry. 3853 Eupljues Hie Snatomie of StHit, 1636 — Eilie's Eupfwes an& fits l&nglanti,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...fashion as rapid as it was momentary — all the court ladies were his scholars, and to parler Euphuisms, was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant,...rapier, or to dance a measure. It was no wonder. that th« Maid of the Mill was soon as effectually blinded by the intricacies of this erudite and courtly... | |
 | Association réformiste - 1835 - 478 pages
...called " Kuphnes and his tngland. " All the court ladies were his scholars, and tu " parler Eunhmsme," was as necessary a qualification to a courtly gallant, as those of understanding now to use his Rapier, or to dance a measure." — SIR Vv. SCOTT'S Monastery. 609 LYNDEWOOD, (Gui.)... | |
 | John Bohn - 1843 - 448 pages
...all the court ladie* were his scholar*, and to parler Euphuism* was as necessary a qualification to u courtly gallant, as those of understanding how to use his rapier, or to danco a measure." — SIK WALTER SCOTT (A/onai/cry). 7248 3£imhuc<! tl)t fln.itomie of Wtit, 1631—... | |
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Euphues and his England, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and reputation. The quaint, forced, and unnatural style which he introduced by his Anatomy of Wit... 
