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'What eloquent speeches and apostrophes to the spirit of liberty! what appeals against a despotism so monstrous and so unnatural! And yet such a tyrant really exists amongst us the tyrant of unrestrained appetite, whom no force of arms, or voices, or votes can resist, while men are willing to be his slaves.
"Then why did you make such long apostrophes to the dead Cerise, when you observed that the pacha was impatient?" "Merely because I was at fault, vizier, and wished to gain time, to consider what I should say next." "Selim," replied Mustapha, "you have great talent; but mind that your next voyage is more wonderful; I presume it will make no difference to you."
Though of Celtic blood, Burke did not understand the French, or the principles for which the common people were fighting in their own way ; and his denunciations and apostrophes to France suggest a preacher without humor, hammering away at sinners who are not present in his congregation.
Jonathan Burge took him up behind, telling him to "hold on tight"; and instead of bursting out into wild accusing apostrophes to God and destiny, he is resolving, as he now walks homewards under the solemn starlight, to repress his sadness, to be less bent on having his own will, and to live more for others, as Dinah does. Home and Its Sorrows
"'The glove? I asked. "'Here it is, said Joseph. 'In your delirium you demanded it; you would not be without it; you caressed it, and addressed to it the tenderest apostrophes. "'And Flora, she heard? "'Flora? repeated Joseph. 'Don't you know haven't you any idea what has happened? It has been terrible! "'Tell me at once! I said. 'Keep nothing back!
But the worse for you, O ye accursed, moving as you are toward damnation!" "Abá, Pale Lamaso, what!" muttered Carlos, the Chinese, looking angrily at the preacher, who continued to extemporize, emitting a series of apostrophes and imprecations. "You will die in final unrepentance, O race of heretics! God punishes you even on this earth with jails and prisons!
Those long, plangent, wailing lines, broken by little gurgling gasps and sobs; those sudden thrilling apostrophes and recognitions; those far-drawn flute-notes; those resounding sea-trumpets; all such effects have their place in the great orchestral symphony he conducts!
A man in some part of the den was praying in a highly nervous, excited way, slobbering out his agonizing sentences, and dwelling hard upon his more open vowels, and keeping several other inmates in sympathy or equal misery, as they piped in answer to his apostrophes: "Lawd, de-scen'! De-scen', O my Lawd. I will not let dee go; no, oh my Lawd! Come, save me! Yes, my Lawd! Come walkin' on de waters!
There was nothing to beguile him in the boasting of his apostrophes, in the flow of his patriotic nonsense, in the emphasis of his harangues, in the ponderousness of his style, fleshy but ropy and lacking in marrow and bone, in the insupportable dross of his long adverbs with which he introduces phrases, in the unalterable formula of his adipose periods badly sewed together with the thread of conjunctions and, finally, in his wearisome habits of tautology.
If they were travelling with us, how they would jar! Ossian would tear the scenery in tatters with his apostrophes, Werther would make love to Mrs. Jack, and Charlotte couldn't cut an English household loaf with a hatchet. Keep to Egeria, though if one cannot stop at liking her, she is a dangerous subject."
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