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The same may be urged, with equal truth, of the Gothic hall, which, with its darkened and tinted windows, its elevated and gloomy roof, and massive oaken table garnished with boar's-head and rosemary, pheasants and peacocks, cranes and cygnets, has an excellent effect in fictitious description.
It is upon the moon itself that the infant speculates, after the moon itself that he stretches out his eager hands to find in after years that he still wants her, but that in science and poetry he has her a thousand-fold more than if she had been handed him down to suck. So, after all, I have bored my reader with a shadow of my theory, instead of a description.
Miss Wallace, why do you think a description like that could be shouted on the street without any one being the wiser?" "Was it supposed to be a description?" she asked, raising her brows a bit. "The best we could get from sixteen or eighteen people, most of whom have known the man a long time; some of them for eight years." "And no one not one of all these people could differentiate him?"
In description in terms of abstract general notions such as common qualities we substitute for fact something which is not fact at all, we lose touch with the concrete and, moreover, we are strongly tempted to confuse fact with abstraction and believe that the implications of the abstraction apply to the fact, or even that the abstraction is itself a real part of the fact.
The author of that most popular story, 'Darling's Twins, gave me a description of all the houses he has ever lived in, he even told me where he purchased his writing-paper, pens, and ink! And to think that a POET should be too grand to be interrogated! Oh, the idea is really very funny! ... quite too funny for anything!
Robespierre, the chief actor of the bloody tragedy, Dumas, the president of the Revolutionary Tribunal, Henriot, the commander of the National Guard, Couthon and St. Just, the tools of the tyrant, were denounced, condemned, and executed. The last hours of Robespierre were horrible beyond description.
What is Mr Finsbury's private address? asked Gideon. '233 King's Road. What brief? Where are you going? Where is the body? cried Morris, clinging to Gideon's arm. 'I have lost it myself, returned Gideon, and ran out of the station. Morris returned from Waterloo in a frame of mind that baffles description.
This beauty is intensified in the description of the still more beautiful garden. But the real dividing point of the essay occurs when Lamb approaches his elder brother. He unmistakably marks the point with the phrase: "Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how," etc.
This movement of the star being directly opposite to the movements which would have been the consequence of parallax, seemed to show that even if the star had any parallax its effects upon the apparent place were entirely masked by a much larger motion of a totally different description. Various attempts were made to account for the phenomenon, but they were not successful.
The description in verse 2 of the waste empty earth, with darkness upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving over the face of the waters, is a picture of the condition of everyone born into this world. In verse 3 we have a picture of God as Light shining into the dark and empty heart. In verse 4 we see that God separates good from evil.
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