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Carlyle though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much is the remark that 'speech is silver' 'silvern' he calls it, pedantically 'while silence is golden." At this point of the sermon, Lillian fled from the room, to my extreme disgust. But still the old man prosed "I think, therefore, that you had better stay with your cousin for the next week.
The art of word-painting a dubious and dangerous art is pushed to almost its furthest limits; the writer has a wonderful gift of combining the minutest and most numerous details into an orderly and intelligible whole; and the quality which the French untranslatably call diable au corps, or, as we more pedantically say, "dæmonic energy," is present everywhere.
They travel in Europe, they visit galleries, they survey cathedrals, they buy pictures, they collect old china, they learn to draw and paint, they go into ecstasies over statues and bronzes, they fill their houses with bric-á-brac, they assume a cynical criticism, or gossip pedantically, whether they know what they are talking about or not.
Dashwood sniffed a little, rather resentful; he had expected Peter to be pleased with the names of the eager ladies who had "called" which proved how low a view he took of his art. Our friend explained it is to be hoped not pedantically that this art was serious work and that society was humbug and imbecility; also that of old the great comedians wouldn't have known such people.
This speech, pedantically delivered, probably seemed to Monsieur Roguin so fine that his hearer could not at once understand it. He paused, and looked at Bartolomeo with that peculiar expression of the mere business lawyer, a mixture of servility with familiarity.
When they turned their back upon the immediate past, and endeavoured pedantically to reproduce the ancient world, they were guilty of an outrageous ignorance and stupidity, a stupidity which is expressed in that unhappy phrase of Pope, the 'Gothic night'. Happily neither the great artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries nor the great poets of England and Spain were much affected by the classical pedantry of which unhappily Petrarch was the begetter.
"I 'fought I offered you to make yourself a cigarette, 'Enery," observed the astounded owner of the materia nicotina. "I grabbed for to make myself a cigarette, Willyerm," was the pedantically correct restatement of Henry.
Sometimes they pedantically "archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten, Mycenaean things, and criticism can detect their doings in each case.
He has a dozen faults, and if you insist pedantically on your rights the conclusive word you use about him will be the word weak. But if you are a generous soul you will utter it low low as the mild grave tone of his own sought harmonies.
Welcomed by the overwhelming majority of the public; objected to only by such persons as suffer from it, and a negligible faction, who, wedded pedantically to liberty of the subject, are resentful of summary powers vested in a single person responsible only to his own 'conscience' it is amazingly, triumphantly, successful.
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