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Perhaps it was the long dress of black velvet which, outlined against a shaded lamp, made her strong build seem slenderer, or perhaps the slight flush on her dusky cheek: a bloom of womanhood hung upon her which she made no effort to dissemble. Indeed, it was one of her originalities that she always gravely and courageously revealed the utmost of whatever mood possessed her.
He was, however, not averse to occasionally taking a hint from him when it would serve his purpose. It is the prerogative of genius to take its material wherever it can be found. "Plato," said Emerson, "plays sad havoc with our originalities." Beethoven's influence is plainly discernible in the preludes and overtures of the Wagner dramas, which are symphonic throughout.
"Then, my dear child, to what are we to attribute your strange and inexplicable mode of life? Can you even persuade yourself that it is founded on reason? Oh, my child! take care? As yet, you only indulge in charming originalities of conduct, poetical eccentricities, sweet and vague reveries but the tendency is fatal, the downward course irresistible.
It was not a copious and brilliant stream of words, dazzling, astonishing, or overpowering. It had no tendency to monologue, and it was not remarkable for any striking originalities either of language, metaphor, or thought.
It is too early to say what position Hawthorne will take in the literature of the world; but as his influence gains the ascendant in America, by prompting new and un-Hawthornesque originalities, it is likely also that it will be made manifest in England, according to some unspecifiable ratio.
The style is clear, crisp, sparkling, abounding in originalities of verbal combination and felicities of descriptive phrase.
"Then, my dear child, to what are we to attribute your strange and inexplicable mode of life? Can you even persuade yourself that it is founded on reason? Oh, my child! take care? As yet, you only indulge in charming originalities of conduct, poetical eccentricities, sweet and vague reveries but the tendency is fatal, the downward course irresistible.
If she were at first a little fluttered by the manners of the new world, she was intelligent enough to carry her own nature frankly through it, instead of endeavoring to assume its character. Thus her little awkwardnesses became originalities, and she was almost popular in the lofty circle when she withdrew from it.
Lord Uredale, his eldest son, a sportsman and farmer, troubled by none of his father's originalities, reigned over the second family "place," in Herefordshire, beside the Wye. "Has Aileen any love affairs yet?" said the Duchess, abruptly, raising her face to his. Lord Lackington looked surprised. "Not that I know of. However, I dare say they wouldn't tell me. I'm a sieve, I know.
As soon as she saw him she motioned to him imperiously. "Shut the door, William. I have something very important to say to you." He obeyed her, and she walked up to him deliberately. He saw the fluttering of her heart beneath her white dress the crushed, bedraggled dress, which still in its soft elegance, its small originalities, spoke Kitty from head to foot.
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