Frailties

Frailties in tennis arrive in many guises and a tired double-fault by Nadal in the fourth game might have disguised deeper concerns had Fish not so meekly wasted his rare chance to break back.

Rafael Nadal edges past Mardy Fish in ATP World Tour Finals 2011

So says Sir Benedict Domdaniel in A Mixture of Frailties, and the brandy that Robertson Davies offers us is a fine vintage indeed.

A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (1958) JB 2007

Follies and Frailties of the Wives and Daughters, no Friends could keep a good Correspondence together for two Days. — — This is unkind of you,

The Beggar's Opera 2007

If you have never read Davies, you have missed a great treat and A Mixture of Frailties is, if not the pinnacle of his art, still likely to be on of the better things you read this year.

A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (1958) JB 2007

Nor is it to be wondred, that the Will of GOD, when cloathed in Words, should be liable to that doubt and uncertainty, which unavoidably attends that sort of Conveyance, when even his Son, whilst cloathed in Flesh, was subject to all the Frailties and Inconveniencies of humane Nature, Sin excepted (III. ix.23, pp. 489-90).

Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake's _Jerusalem_. 2001

This and its sequels, Leaven of Malice (1954) and A Mixture of Frailties (1958), which make up the so-called Salterton trilogy, aroused little interest outside Canada.

Hermits and Fools Lodge, David 1989

Faults, Follies, Frailties and Defects in any Body, lately.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 1963

Self had a great Sway in our Debates: We had our Partialities; our Prejudices; our Favourites of less Merit; and our Jealousies of those who came too near us; Frailties which Societies of higher Consideration, while they are compos'd of Men, will not always be free from.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

But these are Reproaches which in all Nations the Theatre must have been us'd to, unless we could suppose Actors something more than Human Creatures, void of Faults or Frailties.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

Frailties are certainly not the whole of human nature.

A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871