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Though marked by his usual complexities of style, his parentheses and irrelevant allusions and glances at wide metaphysical discussions, he succeeds in laying down a sufficient sketch of his position. The book was originally published in 1830, and refers to the Catholic emancipation of the previous year.
Paris had then, and has yet, about the same estimate of English art that the English have now of ours although it is quite in order to explain in parentheses that three Americans, Whistler, Sargent and Abbey, have recently called a halt on English ribaldry as applied to American artists.
Bert reassured his brother by a glimpse of a partly eaten swede, and was still telling his story in fragments and parentheses, when he discovered behind the counter a yellow and forgotten note addressed to himself. "What's this?" he said, and found it was a year-old note from Edna. "She came 'ere," said Tom, like one who recalls a trivial thing, "arstin' for you and arstin' us to take 'er in.
I went to the Porte Saint Martin, where, I may add in parentheses, they were going to revive "Lucrece Borgia". Villemot, the stage manager, who was of poor appearance but intelligent, said: "I will take you into the gynecium."
"But before I close these despatches, which are to go tomorrow by the 'Ruyter' in which vessel I have also engaged a passage for Mahal the Smuggler, in the event of the success of my plans I must include in parentheses a subject of some importance.
In a recently published book by W. Stekel, Die Sprache des Traumes, which I was unable to utilize, there is a list of the most common sexual symbols, the object of which is to prove that all sexual symbols can be bisexually used. To be sure the clause in parentheses takes away much of the absoluteness of this assertion, for this is not at all permitted by the phantasy.
Attempting to explain it as one continuous narrative from beginning to end, they have been compelled to consider numerous passages as "digressions," "parentheses," or "episodes," etc.
Ursus, taking the precaution of putting his voice between parentheses fashioned by adjusting the palms of his hands to his mouth, cried out to him, "Sir! do as your boy is doing yelp, bark, howl." He re-ascended the steps of the Green Box, and said to the wolf, "Talk as much as you can." Then, raising his voice, "What a crowd there is! We shall have a crammed performance."
The English names are in all cases put in the foreground in bold type, while the Latin names stand modestly back, half hidden in parentheses and Italics; and these English names are in general very well selected, although we think that when two or three English names are given to one plant, or one name to several plants, Dr. Gray ought to indicate which name he prefers.
He promised to get a copy of it for me; and here it is an exact copy, with all the imperfections of the original preserved. It has many slang expressions in it thieves' argot but their meaning has been interlined, in parentheses, by the prison authorities' St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Mr.
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