Perhaps a ring of shining fairies? Such as pursue their feared vagaries In sylvan bower, or haunted hall?

At first sight this seems a brave attempt to get outside the circle of thought in order to test its value and to control its vagaries.

For the rest, Genovesi thus advises his friends: Study the world, devote yourselves to languages and to mathematics, think more about men than about the things above us, and leave metaphysical vagaries to the monks!

It is rare comfort, here, in the land of bustle and sunshine, to sit in a tempered light and hear a man sing or improvise stories over his work, to behold once more vagaries of costume, to let the eye rest upon pictorial fragments of Italy,the "old familiar faces" of Roman models, the endeared outlines of Apennine hills, the contadina bodice and the brigand hat, until these objects revive to the heart all the romance of travel.

The just cause of astonishment is, that the laws are, on the whole, invariable; that the customs are so seldom broken; that sun and moon, plants and animals, grains of dust and vesicles of vapour, are not perpetually committing some vagary or other, and making as great fools of themselves as human beings are wont to do.

As it was, he could only look on from afar and condemn the vagaries of "that dratted boy," prophesying disaster whenever he saw him and hoping that Sir Beverley might not live to see it.

Meanwhile he had taken up the study of the Greek poets and found them very edifying and sanativejust the influence that he needed to clarify his judgment and correct his earlier vagaries of taste.

I never envied you when you had to encounter all Mr. Scarborough's vagaries; but I knew that they sufficed to give you something to do.

All that was to be done with him was to inquire whether his passport was correct, and then (with a due regard to self-preservation) to endure his vagaries in pitying wonder.

It has not come out of him into consciousness, purpose, and act; and is to be treated as non-existent: while what has come out, his passions and senses, is enough to explain all the vagaries of superstition; a vera causa for all its phenomena.

The squat little Spanish peasant is not more gloriously incapable of following the chivalric vagaries of his master than the simple soldier is of grasping the philosophic crotchets of his brother.

Renault, swallowed at a gulp a claret glass filled to the brim with brandy, and said, in a subdued voice: "Most excellent friends, forget the vagaries of an impulsive but generous soul.

It was impossible, of course, even if one had understood their language, to find out what notions they attached to it all; and all I could do, on looking at these heathen idol chapels, in the midst of a Christian and civilised land, was to ponder, in sadness and astonishment, over a puzzle as yet to me inexplicable; namely, how human beings first got into their heads the vagary of worshipping images.

It would, however, be but a sorry toil for the most cynical critic to illustrate these vagaries otherwise than so many slips and trippings of the tongue and pen, to which all men are liable in their unguarded momentsfrom Homer to Anacreon Moore, or Demosthenes to Mr. Brougham.

"Why don't you ask her?" demanded Common Sense in that wearily patient way with which Common Sense meets the vagaries of lovers.

Years passed over him of thwarted endeavour and distracted energiesyears of quarrying and sculpturing, of engineering and obeying the vagaries of successive Popes.

an incident recalling the old vagaries of the menagerie at Newstead.

But it was extraordinary that Mrs. Lavington had cast off her usual primness, and seemed to-night, for the first time in her life, in an exuberant good humour, which she evinced by snubbing her usual favourite Honoria, and lavishing caresses on Argemone, whose vagaries she usually regarded with a sort of puzzled terror, like a hen who has hatched a duckling.

He talked in the same curious constructions as formerly, but I will spare you the grammatical vagaries.

The embryo Generalno doubt because of her pretty facehad taken all her student vagaries with lover-like seriousness, and had, on one occasion, assisted in a notable enterprise.

The abolitionists were making the experiment, at this time, of a free platform, allowing everyone to speak as moved by the spirit, but they soon found that would not do, as those evidently moved by the spirit of mischief were quite as apt to air their vagaries as those moved by the spirit of truth.

It must be seen first afar off, and then close, to understand the vagaries of splendour in which Nature indulges here.

I'm only a girl, and, as such, am allowed vagaries of nervesand all that.

It's a relief not having to lead an animal; such trifles annoy one on these marches, the animal's vagaries, his everlasting attempts to eat his head rope, &c.