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Berckenshaw's way, which Taylor magnifies mightily, and perhaps but what it deserves, but not so easily to be understood as he and others make of it.
Intense attention magnifies like a microscope; but it is possible to apologise for their apparent extravagance from the consideration, that they really observe combinations not perceived by others of inferior application. That this passion has been carried to a curious violence of affection, literary history affords numerous instances. In reading Dr.
"And am I really so weak that I cannot depend upon myself?" Fear magnifies danger. By the time Andrey Ilyitch was finishing the last course, she had firmly made up her mind to tell her husband everything and to flee from danger! "I've something serious to say to you, Andrey," she began after dinner while her husband was taking off his coat and boots to lie down for a nap. "Well?"
He is hated of God as much as he hateth goodness; and differs little from a devil, but that he hath a body. He is neither well full nor fasting; and though he abound with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemned while it was, once past he magnifies, and strives to recall it out of the jaws of time.
"I think I'm thinking it especially to-night that it is horribly difficult. One's imagination seizes hold of trifles, and magnifies them and distorts them. From little things, little natural things, one deduces I mean one takes a midget and makes of it a monster. How one ought to pray to see clear in people one loves!
We see things through an atmosphere which both magnifies and distorts. We remember how it was with Mr. Fearing: "When he was come to the entrance of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I thought" it is Greatheart who tells the story "I should have lost my man: not for that he had any inclination to go back, that he always abhorred; but he was ready to die for fear.
This little work contains the germ of all his subsequent theories, especially that in which he magnifies the state of nature over civilization, an amazing paradox, which, however, appealed to society when men were wearied with the very pleasures for which they lived.
His features exhibited that superb expression that danger only magnifies into grandeur. Gradually, however, their tone became softened, and an air of melancholy succeeded it, as his eyes rested upon Rosarita. The young girl had suddenly become pale, under the reaction of such vivid emotions, as well as under the influence of the powerful sentiment now rekindled within her heart.
No matter how insignificant socially is the figure chosen by Sienkiewicz for his story, the great talent of the author magnifies its striking features, not seen by common people, and makes of it a masterpiece of literary art.
And then age creeps on; and that brings fears of its own, and fears that are all the more intolerable because they are not definite fears at all, merely a loss of nervous vigour, which attaches itself to the most trivial detail and magnifies it into an insuperable difficulty.
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