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Aristotle indulges in an often-quoted paradox to the effect that, in drama, the probable impossible is to be preferred to the improbable possible. With all respect, this seems to be a somewhat cumbrous way of stating the fact that plausibility is of more importance on the stage than what may be called demonstrable probability.
Now all these things, in the mouths of the irritable, lead the way to an indulgence of anger, however unperceived may be the transition. It is on this principle that the saying of St. John is so strikingly true; 'He that hateth his brother is a murderer; that is, he that indulges hatred has the seeds within him, not only of out-breaking anger, but of murder.
Thou whom rich Nature at thy happy birth Blest in her bounty with the largest dower That Heaven indulges to a child of earth!
He indulges in no lugubrious moralisings he is far too agreeable a person for that but exhibits just the required touch of romance by letting you know that in his past there is a sadness which a career of excitement and danger is necessary to enable him to forget.
And yet she has a pretty talent, sensibility, a natural way of writing, an ear for the music of verse, in which she sometimes indulges to vary the dead monotony of everlasting narrative, and a sufficient amount of invention to make her stories readable. I have found my eyes dimmed over them oftener than once, more with thinking about her, perhaps, than about her heroes and heroines.
Once it has fastened its hold upon a man, the time which he should spend with his family is spent in defiling his body in this place; the money which should be spent, in clothing and feeding his wife and children, is squandered here; until the home loses its hold upon him and he selfishly indulges his appetite, no matter who suffers.
"She never indulges in professions, and likes to take people by surprise, when she contemplates doing them a service " this was just as far from Lucy's natural and honest mode of dealing, as it was possible to be "and, so, she has been as mum as one who has lost the faculty of speech.
"Then I may as well tell you, young man," says Piddie, "that it seems inadvisable for us to grant your request at this time." Hartley indulges in a couple more blinks and then adds: "I trust that I made it clear, Mr. Piddie, how important such an increase was to me?" "No doubt you did," says Piddie, "but you don't get it." "That is er final, is it?" asks Hartley. "Quite," says Piddie.
In this region the danger of dogmatism is very great, because the more that a man indulges the rapturous perception of the beauty that appeals to himself, the more likely he is to believe that there is no beauty outside of his own perceptions.
[Footnote 43: There will be frequent occasion to mention this impulse emanating from Sterne, in the following pages. One may note incidentally an anonymous book “Freundschaften” (Leipzig, 1775) in which the author beholds a shepherd who finds a torn lamb and indulges in a sentimental reverie upon it. Allg. deutsche Bibl., XXXVI,
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