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And Tammas, that polished phrase-maker, was only expressing the feelings of every Dalesman in the room when, one night at the Arms, he declared of Owd Bob that "to ha' run was to ha' won." At which M'Adam sniggered audibly and winked at Red Wull. "To ha' run was to ha' one lickin'; to rin next year'll be to " "Win next year." Tammas interposed dogmatically.
Woe to the empty phrase-maker, to the empty idealist, who, instead of making ready the ground for the man of action, turns against him when he appears and hampers him as he does the work!
I was not long in finding one, nor, being an industrious phrase-maker, did I waste my time, for, before I was summoned to behold Nicolete in all her boyhood, I had found occasion and moonlight to remark to my pocket-book that, Though all the world has heard the song of the Nightingale to the Rose, only the Nightingale has heard the answer of the Rose.
He was a passionate phrase-maker. Indeed, it would have been difficult to determine which afforded him more pleasure his self-laudations or the colorful, pungent, often preposterous language in which they were clothed "I am writing something with hot tears in it," I once heard him brag. "They'll be so hot they'll scald the heart of every one who hears it, provided he has a heart."
That kind of man is more or less of a Narcissus. Will he know how to love you? A phrase-maker, always busy in fitting words together, must be a bore. Mademoiselle, a poet is no more poetry than a seed is a flower." "Butscha, I never saw so handsome a man." "Beauty is a veil which often serves to hide imperfections." "He has the most angelic heart of heaven "
What did this mean to the average man except that the country was afraid to fight? The peoples of the Entente powers were contemptuous; Germans were reassured; Americans were humiliated. Wilson the phrase-maker was betrayed by a phrase, and it was to pursue him like a Fury.
Sydney Smith spoke of Sir James Mackintosh as "abating and dissolving pompous gentlemen with the most successful ridicule." The words not inaptly describe Arnold's method of handling personal and literary pretentiousness. His praise as a phrase-maker is in all the Churches of literature.
"Listen to me," said Jacques de Laubardemont, "and answer at once. I am not a phrase-maker, like my father. I bear in mind that you have done me some good offices; and lately again, you have been useful to me, as you always are, without knowing it, for I have somewhat repaired my fortune in your little insurrections. If you will, I can render you an important service; I command a few brave men."
His cause stood in urgent need of just what he could give. It was one of those moments when a new political force, having not as yet any opening for action, finds salvation in the phrase-maker, in the literary artist who can embody it in words. During the next five years and more, Lincoln was the recognized offset to Douglas. His fame spread from Illinois in both directions.
Mrs. Prohack said: "When I saw you were asleep at after eight o'clock this morning I knew there must be something serious. I felt it. However, as the doctor says, if we take it seriously it will soon cease to be serious." "He's not a bad phrase-maker," said Mr. Prohack. In the late afternoon Dr.
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