He always looked sartorially like a colonel of cavalry who had just left Tattersall's Sale Ring with a field-marshal after having bought a steeplechaser.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

All wisdom's armoury this man could wield

His clothes, he knew, were in almost ostentatious good taste—they screamed restraint and expensive lowness of key.

You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid.

I am told he is something of a scholar, which is no bad thing in a king, providing it is not taken to excess.

Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear:

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the bust whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.

The term gentleman is usually given to any well-dressed person wearing a sword.

The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.

a real scholar with a bright pen,

He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.

This gentleman, with knowing air, Survey'd