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For these that secret place of confidential communication was provided, where 'the argument' of all these Plays is opened without respect to the 'offence in it, to its utmost reach of abstruseness and subtlety in its utmost reach of departure from 'the road of common opinion, where the Elizabethan secrets of Morality, and Policy and Religion, which made the Parables of the New Doctrine, are unrolled, at last, in all the new, artistic glories of that 'wrapped up' intention.
In an age of fantastic and meaningless eulogy eulogy so amazing in its unexpectedness and abstruseness that the wonder is not so much that it should have been written as that it could have been thought of Jonson maintains his personal dignity and his good sense.
For who, he might truly observe, could from your title-page, to wit, "My Literary Life and Opinions," published too as introductory to a volume of miscellaneous poems, have anticipated, or even conjectured, a long treatise on Ideal Realism which holds the same relation in abstruseness to Plotinus, as Plotinus does to Plato.
The same person cannot be expected to excel in the abstruseness of metaphysical science, and in the ravishing effusions of poetical genius.
The sisters had some business to transact at Villars's, the Avonmouth deposit of literature and stationery, which was in the hands of a somewhat aspiring genius, who edited the weekly paper, and respected Miss Rachel Curtis in proportion to the number of periodicals she took in, and the abstruseness of the publications she inquired after.
We shall, as I say, utterly misunderstand Browning at every step of his career if we suppose that he was the sort of man who would be likely to take a pleasure in asserting the subtlety and abstruseness of his message. He took pleasure beyond all question in himself; in the strictest sense of the word he enjoyed himself. But his conception of himself was never that of the intellectual.
This time, he took aim at a gull that was sailing over his head, only relinquishing the draught as the bird settled into the water. The 'general' was more particular; for selecting a stationary object, in the top of an oak, that grew on the mountain near him, he studied it with an admirable abstruseness of attention, until the last drop was drained.
In short, it is two interpenetrating solar systems, gyrating, osculating and colliding, over a space of several thousand square miles, with an intricacy, with an embroiled abstruseness Ptolemean or more!
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