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"Or musical criticism," Lute remarked, with no glance at all, but with a pointedness of present company that brought from O'Hay: "Or just being a charming young woman." "What price for the outfit?" Jeremy Braxton asked. "Right now, we could manufacture and lay down, at a proper profit, for five hundred.
He then, in a very few words, set the matter before her, with such a happy mixture of pointedness and kindness, that while the reproof coming from him went to the quick, Ellen yet joined with it no thought of harshness or severity. She was completely subdued, however; the rest of the riding lesson had to be given up, and for an hour Ellen's tears could not be stayed.
The heroic measure, as it was now used, aimed at smoothness of melody and pointedness of expression, and in this the great master was Pope. Like all the poets of his day, he set a higher value on skill of execution than on originality of conception, and systematically abstained from all attempts to excite imagination or feeling.
The Gothic was seldom full blown, and at Laon shows but the merest trace of pointedness to the arches of the western façade, either in the portals or in the higher openings.
To the original characteristics of the Greek epigram, Martial, more than any other poet, added that which constitutes an epigram in the modern sense of the term: pointedness either in jest or earnest, and the bitterness of personal satire. DRAMATIC LITERATURE. Dramatic literature never flourished in Rome, and still less under the empire.
Crawford had not asked her, she must have been the last to be sought after, and should have received a partner only through a series of inquiry, and bustle, and interference, which would have been terrible; but at the same time there was a pointedness in his manner of asking her which she did not like, and she saw his eye glancing for a moment at her necklace, with a smile she thought there was a smile which made her blush and feel wretched.
In that character, methinks, I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric: where good nature the most godlike commendation of a man is only attributed to your person, and denied to your writings; for they are everywhere so full of candour, that, like Horace, you only expose the follies of men without arraigning their vices; and in this excel him, that you add that pointedness of thought which is visibly wanting in our great Roman.
The maternal Sellars, stouter than ever, had been accommodated with a chair at least, I assumed so, she being in a sitting posture; the chair itself was not in evidence. She greeted me with more graciousness than I had expected, enquiring after my health with pointedness and an amount of tender solicitude that, until the explanation broke upon me, somewhat puzzled me. Mr.
"By the way, speaking of the Father of Swords, did you give him an order?" "I gave him an order. Didn't you pay it?" "I thought twice about it. For unless you have struck oil, up in that country of yours where nobody goes, or gold " "Mr. Adolf Ganz," remarked the Brazilian with some pointedness, "all I ask of you is to respect my signature and to keep closed that many-tongued mouth of yours.
Crawford had not asked her, she must have been the last to be sought after, and should have received a partner only through a series of inquiry, and bustle, and interference, which would have been terrible; but at the same time there was a pointedness in his manner of asking her which she did not like, and she saw his eye glancing for a moment at her necklace, with a smile she thought there was a smile which made her blush and feel wretched.
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