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He would stand no nonsense this time. "Halt!" he commanded. "Wha goes there?" "Hey, Jock," inquired a husky voice, "is that you?" This was another most irregular answer. Declining to be drawn into impromptu irrelevancies, Mucklewame stuck to his text. "Advance yin," he continued, "and give the coontersign, if any!" Private Dunshie drew nearer. "Jock," he inquired wistfully, "hae ye gotten a fag?"
Nobody dislikes being hung as much as Bill Smiles would, but he won't be called a liar. I tell the tale as I heard it, relevancies and irrelevancies, though in my more decent words; and as I made no doubts of the truth of it then, I hardly like to now; others can please themselves. It is not often that the whole of a crew is drunk. The crew of the Sea-Fancy was no drunkener than others.
Keith's sententious irrelevancies. Perhaps, if they had caught him in a better humour, he might have had the decency to invite them to luncheon after the funeral. Even this was problematical. The funeral was a roaring success. The display of ecclesiastics and choristers was unusually fine. Torquemada had seen to that part of the business.
It is impossible to classify the multitude of remaining irrelevancies, who, were one to permit them, would fall upon our leisure like locusts; but possibly 'friends of the family, 'friends from the country, and 'casuals' would include the most able-bodied. The child is not father to the man. It was a merely verbal paradox, which shows Wordsworth's ignorance of humanity.
He was strangely silent as we sat facing each other in the compartment, each of us conscious of a hundred things to say, and saying none of them. The train might start at any moment, and such things as we did say were trivial irrelevancies. Suddenly he pulled out a pocket-book, and showed me a photograph. "My wife and Pat you've never seen Pat, I think? We christened her Patricia, you know?"
As I have said, essentially, a good Post-Impressionist picture resembles all other good works of art, and only differs from some, superficially, by a conscious and deliberate rejection of those technical and sentimental irrelevancies that have been imposed on painting by a bad tradition.
What Marshall did was to gather these arguments together, winnow them of their trivialities, inconsistencies, and irrelevancies, and compress the residuum into a compact presentation of the case which marches to its conclusion with all the precision of a demonstration from Euclid.
Pardon me: there may be coincidences and accidents in other matters, but there are none in art; because the essence of art is to sacrifice even the finest irrelevancies, to subordinate the most refractory details, to subdue coincidence and accident into seeming purpose and harmony.
Longfellow's translation of "The Children of the Lord's Supper" may have softened prejudice somewhat, but "Evangeline" , though encumbered with too many descriptive irrelevancies, was so full of beauty, pathos, and melody, that it made converts by thousands to the hitherto ridiculed measure. More than this, it made Longfellow at once the most popular of contemporary English poets.
He saw that for Mendelssohn as for himself nothing really existed but the great questions. Flippant interruptions the sage seemed to disregard, and if the topic dribbled out into irrelevancies he fell silent. Maimon studied the noble curve of his forehead, the decided nose, the prominent lips, in the light of Herr Lavater's theories. Lessing said little: he had the air of a broken man.
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