The greater power of the two, she seems, with a quiet derision that does not belie her amiable passivity, to have reduced in Beauchamp's career the boldest readiness for public action, and some good stout efforts besides, to the flat result of an optically discernible influence of our hero's character in the domestic circle; perhaps a faintly-outlined circle or two beyond it.

But this does not forbid him to be ranked as one of the most distinguishing of her children of the day he lived in.

Blame the victrix if you think he should have been livelier.
Nevil soon had to turn his telescope from politics.

The torch of war was actually lighting, and he was not fashioned to be heedless of what surrounded him.

Our diplomacy, after dancing with all the suppleness of stilts, gravely resigned the gift of motion.