Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.
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Letter to Coleridge (August 14, 1800)Charles Lamb
Gentle Paul, laie doune thy sweard
For Peter of Westminster hath shaven thy beard.John Skelton
There are so many different phases of stuttering, and it always breaks my heart. I always wish I could say, 'When I'm done hugging you . . . your stuttering will be gone.'
Nicholas Brendon
Making love to a sweet, soft, blushing, willing, though silent girl is a pleasant employment; but the task of declaring love to a stony-hearted, obdurate, ill-conditions Diana is very disagreeable for any gentleman. And it is the more so when the gentleman really loves, — or thinks that he loves, — his Diana.
Anthony Trollope
To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.
William Croswell Doane
For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Charles Lamb
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