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If I could not go as a gentleman, and pay my own share of the entertainment, I determined not to go at all; and these resolutions met with the entire approbation of my friend Harrison. "Wait patiently, Geoffrey, and fortune will pay up the arrears of the long debt she owes you. It is an old and hackneyed saying, 'That riches alone, cannot confer happiness upon the possessor."
I think I perceive in you a secret desire to widen the narrow circle of the life to which all women are condemned, and to put love and passion into marriage. Ah! it is a lovely dream! it is not impossible; it is difficult, but if realized, may it not be to the despair of souls forgive me the hackneyed word "incompris"? If you seek a platonic friendship it will be to your sorrow in after years.
I can easily understand why Myers and Ruskin wanted them, even needed them. It was because they carried a meaning not easily borne by more obvious and more hackneyed nouns.
Attracted by the dramatic aspects of human nature, she finds congenial subjects in the great efforts of humanity in the struggle for life. Her power of observation enables her to give freshness to hackneyed subjects, as in "La Forge."
"Well, sir," said Elinor, who, though pitying him, grew impatient for his departure, "and this is all?" "Ah! no, have you forgot what passed in town? That infamous letter? Did she show it you?" "Yes, I saw every note that passed." Every line, every word was in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid a dagger to my heart.
But though the saying itself, like most truths, be trite and hackneyed, no little novelty remains to the search of the inquirer into the varieties of inimical import comprehended in that malign monosyllable. For instance, I submit to the experienced that the degree of hostility it betrays is in much proportioned to its collocation in the sentence.
The view that he looked upon had been until this morning a never-failing source of pleasure, now it moved him to nothing but the recollection of the hackneyed line in the old hymn "where only man is vile," and he was vile with all power of compensation taken from him. To some was given the chance of making reparation. For him there was no chance.
The brevity of life hath likewise given occasion to this comparison. So the immortal Shakespear Life's a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. For which hackneyed quotation I will make the reader amends by a very noble one, which few, I believe, have read.
His brother sculptors, hackneyed in the trammels of assumed principles, for a time ridiculed his works, till, at length, in the year 1800, his merits hecame fully recognised; from which time till his death, in 1822, he stood unrivalled amidst the honours of an admiring world.
The stock rose to sixty-five dollars a foot, and at this figure the world-renowned tragedian, McKean Buchanan, bought a commanding interest and prepared to quit the stage once more he was always doing that. And then it transpired that the mine had been "salted" and not in any hackneyed way, either, but in a singularly bold, barefaced and peculiarly original and outrageous fashion.
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