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And in this year Tennyson brought out his "In Memoriam," and Kingsley his "Alton Lock". It seemed but natural that the earlier lights should be dying out before the later; that Lord Jeffrey, the old king of critics, should pass beyond the sound of reviews; and Wordsworth, after this spring, be seen no more among the Cumberland hills and dales; and Jane Porter, whose innocent high-flown romances had been the delight of the young reading world more than fifty years before, should end her days, a cheerful old lady, in the prosaic town of Bristol.
"But when it comes to a mate, we all know there ain't any one for you like Miss Norah though I do say Master Jim's as handy in a sick-room as that high-flown nurse from Melbourne ever was I'm glad to me bones she's gone!" said Brownie, in pious relief. "So am I," agreed the squatter hastily.
I do not mean that Cocksmoor has not been the joy of my life, and of Mary's, but that was not because we did it for pleasure." "No!" said Margaret, sighing, "you found pleasure by the way. But why did you not say all this to Flora?" "It is of no use to talk to Flora," said Ethel; "she would say it was high-flown and visionary.
"Perhaps thou art right, Mapela the Wise One," answered the king, kindly overlooking or perhaps not noticing the rather lame and impotent conclusion of the induna's high-flown speech. "But there is no reason why I should not at once show myself to my wives; and, by the bones of my royal father, I will!
But how, where that is not the case? where the hatter is simply introduced, as God made him and as his fellow-men have miscalled him, at the crisis of a high-flown rhapsody?
"High-flown," said he, "all girls are like that."... And at that very minute, perhaps, she was putting to her lips... Can one love any one and be so grossly mistaken in them? Fustov stood stockstill before my bed, his hands hanging, like a guilty man. I dressed hurriedly. 'What do you mean to do now, Alexander? I asked.
Full of high-flown hopes he estimated the difficulties of the march as slight, and the power of resistance in the armies of the enemy as yet slighter; he not only spoke confidently of the subjugation of the Parthians, but was already in imagination the conqueror of the kingdoms of Bactria and India. Plan of the Campaign The new Alexander, however, was in no haste.
You daren't be anything that isn't amazingly A TERRE, SO much A TERRE that it is the artistic creation of ordinariness. 'It's very dull to create oneself into nothing better, laughed Ursula. 'Very dull! retorted Gudrun. 'Really Ursula, it is dull, that's just the word. One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it.
High-flown, poetical language is also used in the first book when the Romans visit the scene of the defeat of Varus.
You make plans and projects, talk fervently of the rank of general though you have not yet reached the rank of a lieutenant, and altogether you fire off such high-flown nonsense that your listener must have a great deal of love and ignorance of life to assent to it. Fortunately for men, women in love are always blinded by their feelings and never know anything of life.
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