But, oh, Edward, can Mr. Hamilton, can Lord Delmont consent to your union with one, whose only brother is a disgraced, dishonoured outcast, whose father is a selfish, irritable misanthrope?" "Can the misconduct of Cecil cast in the eyes of the just and good one shadow on the fair fame of his sister?

But, oh, Edward, can Mr. Hamilton, can Lord Delmont consent to your union with one, whose only brother is a disgraced, dishonoured outcast, whose father is a selfish, irritable misanthrope?" "Can the misconduct of Cecil cast in the eyes of the just and good one shadow on the fair fame of his sister?

Such a character as Miss Jessie, who goes about doing good, and producing incidentally the most benevolent reactions in confirmed misanthropes, demands to be handled with the nicest care if sentimentality is to be avoided.

he inquired; and was frankly relieved when Sylvia explained: "He's the head of the Mathematics Department, about seventy years old, and the crossest, cantankerousest old misanthrope you ever saw.

A deformed misanthrope, called James Lalor, endowed with a considerable command of vague, passionate rhetoric, began to write incentives to revolt in The Nation, These growing more and more violent were by the editor at length prudently suppressed.

The solitude, the absorbedness, the lying in a bed month by month, the gazing upon a fixed point hour by hourthese are all self-evident facts with me, a deserted misanthrope.

FRIEND. There needs no magic to divine your scope, Mark'd, as you are, a flagrant misanthrope: Sworn foe to good and bad, to great and small, Thy rankling pen produces nought but gall: Let virtue struggle, or let glory shine, Thy verse affords not one approving line.

This is as full-charged a portrait of human depravity as the gloomiest misanthrope could wish for.

Yet no grim misanthrope am I, Who fears, distrusts, and hates his race; I merely wish them to pass by, And seek some other lounging-place; For, frankly, I should love them more A little further from my door.

George became an elegant, gay, open-hearted, admired captain in the guards; and Francis stalked through the halls of his ancestors, their acknowledged future lord, but a misanthrope; hateful to himself and disagreeable to all around him.

" At this period, about a year before Byron's death, Moore thus writes: "To the world, and more especially England, he presented himself in no other aspect than that of a stern, haughty misanthrope, self-banished from the society of men, and most of all from that of Englishmen.

Thus madly hugging to himself sharp-pointed memories, which a sensible man would have speedily cast off and forgotten, the sour misanthrope passed a useless, cheerless, weary existence, to which death must have been a welcome relief.

" At this period, about a year before Byron's death, Moore thus writes: "To the world, and more especially England, he presented himself in no other aspect than that of a stern, haughty misanthrope, self-banished from the society of men, and most of all from that of Englishmen.

When he was still too sober to take a really vital interest in the teaching, he was a misanthrope, bitter and brutal, with an astonishing command of the most terrible words.

"Do you know, Barbara Marshall, that there are times when you keep one unhappy old misanthrope from despairing of his kind?" She had at this unlooked-for speech only the most honest astonishment.

he inquired; and was frankly relieved when Sylvia explained: "He's the head of the Mathematics Department, about seventy years old, and the crossest, cantankerousest old misanthrope you ever saw.