"I believe," said he, "the northern nobility descend to this sort of thing; but then they have not smelled powder, and seen glory, and served her Majesty.

Chaucer's plan is superior to Boccaccio's; for only the nobility figure as story-tellers in the Decameron, while the Canterbury pilgrims represent all ranks of English life, from the knight to the sailor.

His mind is so secure that thunder rocks him asleep, which breaks other men's slumbers; nobility lightens in his eyes, and in his face and gesture is painted the god of hospitality.

Then what I said before is plainly show'd, The true nobility proceeds from God; Nor left us by inheritance, but given By bounty of our stars, and grace of Heaven.

Being obliged to remove my habitation, I was led by my evil genius to a convenient house in a street where many of the nobility reside.

Like commons the nobility resort In crowding heaps, to fill your moving court: To welcome your approach the vulgar run, Like some new envoy from the distant sun; And country beauties by their lovers go, 50 Blessing themselves, and wondering at the show.

The mass of nobility seekers seemed content to get before the public by any means, and to wear its most stinging sarcasms as they would a new dress cap.

The nobility yield by slow, almost imperceptible degrees, to the demands of the people.