...seemed to have attained full manhood, charming all round him by his graceful, courteous manners, and " Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind." With ready tact that could give no offence, he never failed to introduce a profitable thought or give...

...reserve, and noble reticence, Manners so kind, yet stately, such a grace Of tenderest courtesy." " For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind." " No knight of Arthur's table dealt in sconi ; But, if a man were halt or hunch" d, in him By those...

...varnish would not touch the substantial reality of which it has come to be the pseudo-representative ; " For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind." One point of improvement in sincerity of social intercourse I am inclined to find in the behaviour...

...open battle or the tilting-field Forbore his own advantage, and these two Were the most nobly-mannered men of all ; For manners are not idle, but the fruit...must be a thousand-fold Less noble, being, as all rumor runs, The most disloyal friend in all the world." To which a mournful answer made the Queen....

...open battle or the tilting-field Forbore his own advantage, and these two Were the most nobly^mannered men of all ; For manners are not idle, but the fruit...Yea,' said the maid, ' be manners such fair fruit 1 Then Lancelot's needs must be a thousand-fold Less noble, being, as all rumour runs, The most disloyal...

...character and mind of a man. As Tennyson says, speaking of Launcelot's courtesy and good manners — " For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind." So we say of style — it is the body, the outward manifestation of the writer's mind ; — part and...

...open battle or the tilting-field Forbore his own advantage, and these two Were the most nobly-mannered men of all ; For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble inind.' ' Yea,' said the maid, ' be manners such fair fruit ? Then Lancelot's needs must be a thousand-fold...

...spontaneously from a gentle and courteous heart ; as in the beautiful words of our greatest living poet : — " manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind." When, of old, Wat Tyler and his associates inveighed so bitterly against the great ones of the land,...

...Lord, may thus be full of real and high Christian feeling. For the poet is undoubtedly right — "And manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind." There is a precept to which our Lord has attached very great importance, — "Thou shalt love thy neighbour...

...open battle or the tilting-field Forbore his own advantage, and these two Were the most nobly-mannered men of all ; For manners, are not idle, but the fruit...must be a thousand-fold Less noble, being, as all rumor runs. The most disloyal friend in all the world." To which a mournful answer made the Queen,,...