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'One never can be sure of that from a lady's account of a man. When a man talks to me about another man, I can generally tell whether I should like him or not particularly if I know the man well who is giving the description; but it is quite different when a woman is the describer. 'You mean that you won't take my word? 'We see with different eyes in such matters.
I know Vincent has told you how happy you have made us both, but I simply could not resist adding my own poor words of gratitude." She sure was a weak describer. Poor words! If she hadn't said a whole mouthful then my ears are no good. Less'n a minute and a half by the clock she'd been in there, but she certainly had decanted the beans.
Once known, he gained sympathizing listeners among the benevolent, because a persecuted man; and blindly believing votaries among the ignorant and fearful, because a bold and vehement declaimer against wickedness, as well as an eloquent describer of the horrible torments attached to unbelief.
"If you're a good describer," says I, "there's a chance that I do. But listen: suppose she's kind of out of your class a girl who's been brought up in a basement, say, with a janitor for a father?" "What do I care who her father is?" says Crosby. "I was brought up in a lumber camp myself. All I ask is a chance to meet her." "You sure know what you want," says I. "Come on."
Wraxall, a very pleasant describer of men and manners, thus sketches him: "In Parliament he was invariably habited in a full-dress suit of clothes, commonly of a dark colour, without lace or embroidery, close buttoned, with his sword thrust through the pocket. His countenance was very expressive, but not of genius; still less did it indicate timidity or modesty.
"Haines, you ain't much better'n spoiled meat if you keep back. I gave you till I count ten " "Why, you bob-tailed skunk," shouted a new voice. "You bone-spavined, pink-eyed rat-catcher," continued this very particular describer, "what have you got on us? Come out and dicker and we'll do the same!" The sheriff sighed, softly, deeply. "I thought maybe they wouldn't get down to talk," he murmured.
In the 'Gold-Bug' the wonder-worker is Legrand, and in both the 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' and the 'Purloined Letter' he is M. Dupin; and in all three tales the telling of the story is entrusted to an anonymous narrator, serving not only as a sort of Greek chorus to hint to the spectators the emotions they ought to feel, but also as the describer of the personality and peculiarities of Legrand and Dupin, who are thus individualized, humanized, and related to the real world.
The powers requisite for the production of poetry are: first, those of Observation and Description, i.e. the ability to observe with accuracy things as they are in themselves, and with fidelity to describe them, unmodified by any passion or feeling existing in the mind of the describer; whether the things depicted be actually present to the senses, or have a place only in the memory.
Largely pressing the separation and then each one is not visiting and then there being any more and then the nice present, this is not the secret of that life. Not a describer nor a ruler nor a mingler and yet there is not a difference that is not greater.
"It may be observed that while Euripides accuses AEschylus of being 'pomp-bundle-worded, which I suppose means bombastic and given to rodomontade, AEschylus retorts on Euripides that he is a 'gossip gleaner, a describer of beggars, and a rag-stitcher, from which it may be inferred that he was truer to the life of his own times than AEschylus was.
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