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Clough was right in choosing the so-called Dryden's translation as the basis of his work. Its style is not old enough to have become antiquated, while yet it possesses much of the savor and raciness of age.
A movement throughout the assembly a whispering, and a ceaseless expectoration, indicated the raciness and interest which attached to the matter in hand, and every eye and mouth seemed opened in the fulness of an anxious expectation. I sat quietly and uncomfortably, and my heart beat palpably against my clothes.
Not the least part of our lesson were to realize the curiosity and interest of friendly foreign experts, and how our situation looks to them. "American poetry," says the London "Times," is the poetry of apt pupils, but it is afflicted from first to last with a fatal want of raciness.
She resumed her Sunday-school classes, and though she talked at first of their raciness and freedom, she soon longed after the cleanliness, respectfulness, and docility of the despised little Bridgefordites, and uttered bitter things of Micklethwayte turbulence, declaring perhaps not without truth that the children had grown much worse in her absence. And as Mr.
The freshness of the air, the raciness of the earth, the green of grass and trees, the laughing sunlight, one might have fancied it was the spirits of all these singing together in unison. "It's a skylark, sure enough," said Anthony, looking skywards. "But where the mischief is he?" And they gave eyes and ears to trying to determine, searching the empyrean.
GENERAL APPEARANCE That of a well-proportioned bright and active sporting dog, showing power without lumber and raciness without weediness. HEAD Long, fine, without being weak, the muzzle square, the underjaw strong with an absence of lippiness or throatiness. EYES Dark as possible, with a very intelligent, mild expression. NECK Long and clean.
Finally, he would walk back to Hereford Square, getting home late at night. And if the physique of the man was bracing, his conversation, unless he happened to be suffering from one of his occasional fits of depression, was still more so. Its freshness, raciness and eccentric whim no pen could describe.
Many people can say, as they bethink themselves of their old college companions, that those who wrote with good sense and good taste at twenty have mostly settled down into the dullest and baldest of prosers; while such as dealt in bombastic flourishes and absurd ambitiousness of style have learned, as time went on, to prune their early luxuriances, while still retaining something of raciness, interest, and ornament.
He is not afraid of using colloquialisms which every critic of the time would have shuddered at, and which, by their raciness and flavour, add enormously to his effects. His writing is also extremely metaphorical; technical terms are thrown in helter-skelter whenever the meaning would benefit; and the boldest constructions at every turn are suddenly brought into being.
My young compatriot and friend, M. Quellien, a Breton poet full of raciness and originality, the only man of the present day whom I have known to possess the faculty of creating myths, has described this phase of my destiny in a very ingenious style. He says that my soul will dwell, in the shape of a white sea-bird, around the ruined church of St.
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