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Hence the spectacle in the new Spanish and Portuguese world, as in the old, of men and women who are at once journalists, novelists, dramatists, politicians, soldiers, poets and what not else. Such a versatility, often joined to a literary prolixity, no doubt serves to lower the artistic worth of works produced under such conditions.
If there is one thing more than another that the man or the woman driven against the ropes should avoid, it is prolixity; the snare that catches craft in its own net.
Woodcourt seemed a little distressed by her prolixity, but he was too considerate to let her see it and contrived delicately to bring the conversation round to making his acknowledgments to my guardian for his hospitality and for the very happy hours he called them the very happy hours he had passed with us.
The antique volume which I had taken up was the Mad Trist of Sir Launcelot Canning ; but I had called it a favorite of Usher's more in sad jest than in earnest; for, in truth, there is little in its uncouth and unimaginative prolixity which could have had interest for the lofty and spiritual ideality of my friend.
Whether that half-century of continuous war would have been possible with the artillery, means of locomotion, and other machinery of destruction and communication now so terribly familiar to the world, can hardly be a question. The preterhuman prolixity of negotiation which appals us in the days when steam and electricity had not yet annihilated time and space, ought also to be obsolete.
If I have given the statement with what may be thought, by some, unnecessary prolixity, I have only to say that I have found many minds to have a great difficulty in conceiving of necessity as acting altogether independent of design. Let me now trace these principles as sources of action in Darwin's work or theory.
Even the historians show a falling away from the example of William of Malmesbury or of Roger of Hoveden. The one English chronicler of the thirteenth century who is a considerable man of letters, Matthew Paris, belongs to the early half of it, before the academic tradition was fully established, and even with him prolixity impairs the art without injuring the colour of his work.
But it required his poetic fire to be at fusing point to enable him to burst through his natural tendency to prolixity and even dulness.
He accepted, then, the Henry story in spite of his deliberate opinions, as a help to involve the country in a party war. Even at the risk of some prolixity it is needful to follow the course of events that led to this war a little farther; for here was the culmination of Mr.
Here I will not trouble you with what past at our first interview; for I would avoid prolixity as much as possible." "Pray let us hear all," cries Partridge; "I want mightily to know what brought him to Bath."
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