Voltaire was the arch-representative of all those elements in contemporary thought, its curiosity, irreverence, intrepidity, vivaciousness, rationality, to which, as we have so often had to say, Rousseau's temperament and his Genevese spirit made him profoundly antipathetic.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
His happy vivaciousness assisted him to feel it by day.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
He had mentally played the woman to her superior vivaciousness too long for him to see her taking a culprit's attitude.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009