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Amongst these was a sincere admiration for Southey, whom Borrow, with his love of superlatives, looked upon not so much as a poet as England’s best prose writer, and probably the purest and most noble character to which she had ever given birth. We have no sure knowledge of whether, while in Norwich, Borrow made the acquaintance of Old Crome.
His superlatives of censure were in such constant employment that they began to have a threadbare sound before he left us; and as he has it in prospective to run the gantlet of all the inn-keepers on the continent of Europe, to say nothing of farther lands, where inn-keepers would be a relief, there is no knowing what exhaustion his powers in this sort may undergo before he reaches us again.
Consequently a successful pursuit and a wresting of her from a body of competitors, tells you that you are the best man. What is more, it tells the world so. Willoughby aired his amiable superlatives in the eye of Miss Middleton; he had a leg. He was the heir of successful competitors.
Brinkley had told her husband, with the necessity her sex has for putting its superlatives before its positives; but she was pale and thin, and she moved with a languid step when they all met at night after Mrs. Brinkley had kept out of the Pasmers' way during the day. "She has been ill all the latter part of the winter," said Mrs. Pasmer to Mrs.
The illuminated signs that had searched the secret crevices of the mind, and had aided the iridescent foam seen from the harbour, looked tawdry and vulgar, like a circus on a rainy morning. Even the theatres, with their sign-borne superlatives, were garish and illusion-shattering. There was almost an apologetic air about the bill-boards proclaiming their nightly offering to be the 'biggest ever.
In the heart of man love and will mingle into hope. Hail to the new life and the ever-new religion! Hail to the resurrection morning! As a general thing it is well to distrust a Spaniard's superlatives. He will tell you that his people are the most amiable in the world, but you will do well to carry your revolver into the interior.
The daily expectation, that absurd delicious hope, that "something" would happen, had not yet deserted him, and once again he began to live on it. One day there arrived a letter from Vassie a letter written in superlatives, a letter that made Ishmael and John-James both feel relief in their different ways and that made the Parson very glad.
This drew me from my sleep, for the human ear is very susceptible to superlatives. "What is it?" "A letter for your lordship. As it is marked 'Immediate, I thought I might take the liberty of disturbing your lordship's slumbers." "You did quite right, Tomaso." "You owe me eight sous, signore, which I paid for the postage." "There's half a franc, keep the change."
Peter's, "flattering, false insculptions on a tomb, and in men's hearts reproach," epitaphs overweighted with superlatives, ridiculous, were it not for their impiety, and full of the lies and vanities of man in the very house of God.
Does anything or anybody always walk so? Moreover, I am a friend to not many superlatives, and have perceived no saying to be more true than the one that extremes meet: they meet indeed, and folly is their meeting-place.
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