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There was a great flourish of compliments, much friendly phrase-making, and their Mightinesses were informed that the communication of the marriages was made to them before any other power had been notified, in proof of the extraordinary affection entertained for them by France.
Matthew Arnold said of Shelley that he was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." One is tempted to retort that to be beautiful is in itself to escape futility, and to people a void with angels is to be far from ineffectual. But the metaphor is more striking as phrase-making than as criticism.
Near the balcony there was more light, and one could hear the jingling of bottles and glasses above the noisy talk and laughter. "Life is an incurable malady." It was Schafroff who spoke. "And you are an incurable fool!" shouted Ivanoff, in reply, "Can't you stop your eternal phrase-making?" On entering, Yourii received a boisterous welcome.
But the miraculous loaves and fishes of the gospel would have been necessary to successfully alleviate even the distress which he saw with his own eyes, and although much of the preaching of the social democrats still seemed to him mere phrase-making and altogether mistaken, he yet came gradually to the conclusion that somewhere he did not precisely know where in the construction of the social machine there must be a flaw, seeing that there were so many people who could and would work, and yet were doomed to despair and ruin for lack of employment.
For who will not be skeptical as to the value of any criticism by a man who pours contempt over the pictures of Puvis de Chavannes, stigmatizes one of Beethoven's purest creations as "corrupting," and calls Shakspere a "scribbler"! Nothing can be more genuine than his manner: there is no posing, no orating, no phrase-making; a quiet earnestness pervades all his utterances.
It is a fearful strain on imagination and emotion, on phrase-making and word-finding. The real wonder is not that a few people can do it better than others, but that anyone can do it at all. The difference between the worst novelist and the best is much less than the difference between the worst novelist and the person who can't write at all.
The mental agility is often moral suppleness, and nobody expects a critical examination of the parallelism itself. He was not an historian of the first rank, but a phrase-making rhetorician, who is responsible for the current saying, History is philosophy teaching by examples.
I suspected what was coming when she spoke to me in the breakfast-room; I felt certain of it now. "Mr. Hartright," she said, "I am going to begin by making a frank avowal to you. I am going to say without phrase-making, which I detest, or paying compliments, which I heartily despise that I have come, in the course of your residence with us, to feel a strong friendly regard for you.
His death is a landmark in the spiritual history of Europe. Behind him lies that which, taken with the Divina Commedia, has won for Italy an exaggerated literary reputation. In the thirteenth century there was plenty of poetry hardly inferior to the Lamento of Rinaldo; in the fourteenth comes Petrarch with the curse of mellifluous phrase-making.
Competent learning, general cultivation, absolute probity, accuracy of general view, human sympathy and technical capacity how many things are necessary to the critic, without reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrase-making! July 26, 1878. Every morning I wake up with the same sense of vain struggle against a mountain tide which is about to overwhelm me.
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