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Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded. GARRICK. 'Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's Martial the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know.
If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically. GARRICK. 'Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's Martial the most extraordinary . He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, "You don't seem to have that turn."
What was it you said? That, in a breakdown of Christianity like the present, we might leave talk of the public-houses and usefully consider Sunday closing of churches and chapels or something of the sort." "Was it in that form the report reached you?" the Minister asked with entire gravity. "There is an epigrammatist abroad in Polpier, and I have never been able to trace him or her.
By calling he was attaché to the French Embassy in London; by profession he was an epigrammatist. That is to say, he was a sort of social revolver. He went off if one touched him conversationally, and like others among us, he frequently missed fire. Of course, he had but little real respect for the truth.
It is always dangerous to accept one remarkable talker's view of the characteristics of another; and if this is true of men who merely compete with each other in the ordinary give-and-take of the dinner-table epigrammatist and raconteur, the caution is doubly necessary in the case of two rival prophets two competing oracles.
The sages and poets are the real fools of our day, and since I did not feel a vocation to be a king, or a priest, a hangman, or a lamb for sacrifice, I became a fool." "Yes, a fool, that is to say, an epigrammatist, whose biting tongue makes the whole court tremble." "Since I cannot, like my royal master, have these criminals executed, I give them a few sword-cuts with my tongue.
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