This cooling dish will suit your temperament," said he to a third; "and

But however much health may contribute to that flow of good spirits which is so essential to our happiness, good spirits do not entirely depend upon health; for a man may be perfectly sound in his physique and still possess a melancholy temperament and be generally given up to sad thoughts.

The wary Ferdinand knew the sanguine temperament of the Moors, and hastened to prevent their deriving confidence from the night's disaster.

One in the clothing-business, who, there is reason to suspect, may have inherited, by descent, the great poet's impressible temperament, let a customer slip through his fingers one day without fitting him with a new garment.

Believing that I understood the President's temperament, success in an attempt to change his views seemed to lie in moderation and in partial approval of his purpose rather than in bluntly arguing that it was wholly wrong and should be abandoned.

Concede intellectual power, or the spiritual element, then add this temperament, and there follows a certain subtile, penetrative, radical quality of thought, a characteristic percipience of principles.

We seldom recognize our own queerness, but are prone to mark the erratic temperaments of others, and this is rather more comfortable than to be annoyed by a consciousness of our personal deficits.

Further, such gifts imply an intense temperament, larger and more vivid ideas, which, as the inseparable accompaniment of great intellectual power, entail on its possessor a corresponding intensity of the emotions, making them incomparably more violent than those to which the ordinary man is a prey.

Yet not an iota of the individual is lost in any one; the gentle bearing and amenity of John still follow him in his office of almoner; nor in Peter does the deep repose of the erect attitude of the Apostle, as he deals the death-stroke to the offender by a simple bend of his finger, subdue the energetic, sanguine temperament of the Disciple.

Richelieu had studied her temperament, and understood it.

You hear of a person having the right temperament for games, of being naturally imperturbable.

Couldn't, with wouldn't, was in my case curiously involved; nor have I in this respect ever been able to correct my natural temperament.

Like the young Milton, Browning was fond of music, and in many of his poems, especially in "Abt Vogler" and "A Toccata of Galuppi's," he interprets the musical temperament better, perhaps, than any other writer in our literature.

" Here we see defined the temperament of the heroic poet, that inner nobility and exaltation without which mere technical skill can avail little in moving and holding the hearts of men.

As they came upon the group, Robert saw a young man with dark eyes and hair, a face that was ruddy, yet denoting nervous temperament.

While deploring Michelangelo's impracticabilitythat solitary, self-reliant, and exacting temperament which made him reject collaboration, and which doomed so much of his best work to incompletenesswe must remember that to the very end of his long life he produced nothing (except perhaps in architecture) which does not bear the seal and superscription of his fervent self.

How this coming back develops the temperament!

If religion, good discipline, honest education, wholesome exhortation, fair promises, fame and loss of good name cannot inhibit and deter such, (which to chaste and sober maids cannot choose but avail much,) labour and exercise, strict diet, rigour and threats may more opportunely be used, and are able of themselves to qualify and divert an ill-disposed temperament.

" "Upon my word, I envy your sanguine temperament!" "Mr. Headley, I shall quietly make my call at Trebooze to-morrow, as if nothing had happened.

His merely theatric experience has thus enriched and equipped his temperament with a superb technique.

It would have exceeded the peaceful and submissive temperament of the honest Earing, to have delayed any longer.

Roxdal continued to exhibit the same finicking temperament in the petty details of the ménage.

It's my temperament; and what's Artright there, pleasewhat's Art, after all, but expressed temperament?

I urge, moreover, that the same principle should apply to those who do not marrythat they also should learn in the light what their difficulties are going to be; how to face their own temperaments; how to deal with their own minds and bodies.

It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection.