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"Oh, no; exactly the opposite; for me at least." "Is he then a curriculum?" "He's partly a curriculum, and partly I don't know a taste for strong drink perhaps." She laughed reluctantly, adding, "I'm being absurd, I know." "In talk or in conduct?" "Both, Mr. Morewood. I can only see him in metaphors. I once thought of him as a mountain range; that's fine-sounding and dignified, isn't it?
Though she had always declared to herself that she was in every respect satisfied with her lover from the Post Office, though she had been sure that she had never wanted him to be other than he was, still, when she heard of that fine-sounding name, there did for a moment come upon her an idea that, for his sake, it might be well that he should have the possession of all that his birth had done for him.
But it is not with freaks of Nature, it is with Nature, that we have to deal. Girls may please themselves with fine-sounding phrases about equal powers and equal rights in marriage, but they generally vanish with the first approach of a living affection. No idea of independence or equality ever, we dare affirm, came between a great nature and its great love.
She soon drew round herself acquaintances at first only Russians, afterwards Frenchmen with very excellent manners and fine-sounding names. All of them brought their friends, and la belle Mme. de Lavretsky was soon known from Chausée d'Antin to Rue de Lille. Fedor Ivanitch still busied himself with study, and set to work translating a well-known treatise on irrigation.
"Then you will betray me?" demanded the woman fiercely. "Betray?" answered the girl. "That's a fine-sounding word, but what does it mean? I shall do the best I can for the man I love." "Ha! The best you can! And what is that? To make him ashamed of you! To make him suffer!" "Suffer?" "Why not? Don't you suppose he will suffer to find that you have no sympathy with his wishes?" "What do you mean?"
It seems as if there were here a story which might be made to stir our hearts, but Johnson makes it merely dull. In his long words and fine-sounding sentences we catch no thrill of real life. The play is artificial and cold, and moves us neither to wonder nor sorrow.
His words would be honest and indignant and fine-sounding, but the hearer would be sure to say, "What a fool is that Mr. O'Mahony!" At any rate, he understood so much of all this that he was determined to accept the Chiltern Hundreds and flee away as soon as his speech should be made. It was far advanced in May, and poor Rachel was still very ill.
By the word 'real' many people understand 'trivial. Perhaps it sometimes is so; but I must own that the first appearance of reality before me shook me profoundly, scared me, impressed me.... What fine-sounding phrases all about love that didn't come off, to use Gogol's expression! ... I come back to my story.
I am vexed with you, that you will not see with the clear, discerning eyes God gave you originally." "But I do see with them, and very discerningly, notwithstanding your comparison. Now there is that 'Skeleton in Armor, his last effusion, I believe, that you are all making such a work over fine-sounding thing enough, I grant you, ingenious rhyme, and all that.
The reader soon sees that, notwithstanding all the impassioned hyperboles, it is really intellectual poetry, a youth philosophizing about his passion. And the philosophy is little more than a matter of fine-sounding but vacuous analogies that have no root in the facts of experience. And so the poetry does not take hold of one.
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