Show dignity di dignity b nit y is essentially a slow thing things agility oe of mind no less than of body befits beks it not 1 11 rapid processes of thought quick turns of feeling a host of the little arts and characteristics te which give int interest brebt brest to composition have haven too much of the nimble and merci mercurial arial about them A harlequin in ceaseless motion Is un undignified dagni a chief justice sitting very ifill on the be bench and scarcely moving save his hands and head is tolerably dignified the kad kinq king of slam siam at a state pageant sit rit sitting till tirl in a gaii gaff gallery iery lery in a sumptuous dress and so immovable evlen evien to his eyes that foreign ambassadors have doubted d whether gewere he were not a wax figure is very dignified but the most dignified OF of all in the belief of millions of people of nary stupidity was tho the hindmo deity hirahm who through innumerable ages remained in absolute quiescence never stirring and never doing anything whatever dhere so here I 1 thought is the key of the mystery there is a general prepossession that slowness has more dignity than a agility and a particular application of this general prepossession leads to a common belief sometimes grossly absurd sometimes without reason that dullness is a di dignified unified thing Z Dig dignity mity of dullness in Fra sers magazine marazine Mao azine |