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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, ...

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...ALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulation, amidst much sceptical c... ...to end War,” got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards t... ... taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writin... ...ross the At- lantic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainl... ...te a scramble for attention, but an attempt to express in every variety of phrase and as- pect this one system of ideas which now possesses us all. In... ... A A ATION TION TION TION TION MORE AND MORE frequently does one hear this phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new ... ...he new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phrase has taken hold of the imaginations of great multitudes of people: it... ...he imaginations of great multitudes of people: it is one of those creative phrases that may alter the whole destiny of mankind. But as yet it is still... ...ay alter the whole destiny of mankind. But as yet it is still a very vague phrase, a cloudy promise of peace. I make no apology therefore, for casting...

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...king,? yet this egotistic way of speaking, wherein I take precedence of my chimney, is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me....

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...himney , is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me. Within thirty feet of the turf-...

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...either period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good Place,? twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light....

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...pia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James’s phrase and story of “The Great Good Place,” twinkled across my mind, and pa... ...ng them out of my mind again. Mr. Gabbitas, you see, did sometimes, as the phrase went, “take notice” of me, he had induced me to go on reading after ... ...to me were simple enough, written in a round- ish, unformed hand and badly phrased. Her first two or three showed a shy pleasure in the use of the wor... ...ve” pointed me to that—that for her to face about with these precise small phrases toward abandonment, after we had kissed and whis- pered and come so... ...eak our full meanings, we stamped out our feelings with clumsy stereotyped phrases; you who are better taught would fail to catch our intention. The e... ...woven cloth of gold… . The earth recreated—only by the reiteration of such phrases may I hope to give the intense freshness of that dawn. For a time I... ...know that something of that noble dream came back to me with his words and phrases. 192 In the Days of the Comet We walked up to a place called Bourn... ... And she would sometimes even speak tentatively in those narrow, old-world phrases that her lips could rob of all their bitter narrowness, of Nettie. ... ...r pity, and the great riches of her voice, of her few reassuring words and phrases. I noted and remembered very clearly how once my mother’s lean old ...

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...and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest...

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...ry little less than a thousand a year. But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marine... ...y can be capable of satisfying to the same extent. Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and pre... ...lmost any I know in London, and certainly she will then feel — to use a vulgar phrase — that she has got her penny worth for her penny. Henry could no...

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...ssured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: ?Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?? ?How well Madame de Portenduere sang!? ?Who is that little woman with such a load of diamonds?? Or, after firing off some smart epigrams, which give...

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...nd that the opinion is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: “Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?... ... which each type of wit is condensed into a shaft, each speaker utters his phrase and casts his experience in a word, in which every one finds amuseme... ...talk, light or deep, play and eddy, changing their aspect and hue at every phrase. Eager criticism and crisp anecdotes lead on from one to the next. A... ...l try to convert you, for you will have opened the way for the stereotyped phrases, the head- shaking and gestures understood by all these women: ‘For... ...by Charles Nodier, I found my own sen- sations in every one of his elegant phrases. Italian, then, as were most of the officers of his regiment, which...

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...itten about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an early letter to his sister when as yet he had not ?found his way,? characterize him, I think, better than a...

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...e or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the f... ...one writer, but it is conclusive as to any sense of “wasted time” (his own phrase) having ever existed in Balzac’s mind about the other. 14 The Human... ... clack and mair o’ yer Jairman wine!” Only, in human respect and other, we phrase it: “Oh, dear M. de Balzac! give us more Eugenie Grandets, more Pere... ...efect of knowledge. It may or may not be that marriage, in the hack- neyed phrase, is a net or other receptacle where all the out- siders would be in,... ...ety. When Buffon de- scribes the lion, he dismisses the lioness with a few phrases; but in society a wife is not always the female of the male. There ... ...me by my own words will find that they have misin- terpreted some ironical phrase, or that they have turned against me a speech given to one of my act...

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...ch Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation in common. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable....

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...s been revised by all three T ranslators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after delibe...

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...obtain relief, continuity, and vigour: no hieroglyphic touch, no smoothed impasto, no inscrutable shadow, as in painting; no blank wall, as in archite... ...not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each s... ...operly constructed sentence there should be observed this knot or hitch; so that (however delicately) we are led to fore- see, to expect, and then to ... ...of surprise, as, very grossly, in the common figure of the antithesis, or, with much greater subtlety, where an antithesis is first sug- gested and th... ...f the fabric must not suffer, or the artist has been proved unequal to his design. And, on the other hand, no form of words must be selected, no knot ... ...prose rejects the Cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the Cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meani... ...ains the high- est degree of elegant and pregnant implication unobtrusively; or if obtrusively, then with the greatest gain to sense and vigour. Even ... ... little that they have; the merits of prose are inferior, but they are not the same; it is a little kingdom, but an independent. 10 Robert Louis Stev... ...same; it is a little kingdom, but an independent. 10 Robert Louis Stevenson 3. RHYTHM OF THE PHRASE. – Some way back, I used a word which still await...

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...at will, he can check or let run, without flounder- ing, the collection of phrases which he keeps on tap, and which produce upon his victims the effec... ...eek to know the utmost power of language, or the strongest pressure that a phrase can bring to bear against rebellious lucre, against the miserly pro-... ...ocation, and his tongue! Intrepid mariner, he plunges in, armed with a few phrases, to catch five or six thou- sand francs in the frozen seas, in the ... ...easantly and without pain. Can you think without a shudder of the flood of phrases which, day by day, renewed each dawn, leaps in cascades the length ... ...nstruction the particular public he was expected to gull, crammed him with phrases, fed him with impromptu replies, provisioned him with unan- swerabl... ...m along! Thread by thread, I began to net my man. I launched my four-horse phrases, and the F-sharp arguments, and all the rest of the cursed stuff. E... ... upon his horse, he trot- ted along the embankment thinking no more of his phrases than an actor thinks of his part which he has played for a hundred ... ...r interests guarantee—” Hereupon Gaudissart drew forth his whole string of phrases, and Monsieur Vernier let him go the length of his tether, lis- ten... ...seat. “You may even be nothing at all,” said Gaudissart, going on with his phrases, “but you are conscious of yourself; you feel yourself—” “I feel my...

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...s, setting up figures of speech singly and without support of any neighbor phrase, to be stared at curiously and with intent to copy or dissect! Here ... ...ntent to copy or dissect! Here is gram- mar done without deliberation: the phrases carry their mean- ing simply and by a sort of limpid reflection; th... ... and genial friend who talks, not for himself or for his 4 On Being Human phrase, but for you. It is questionable morals to dismember a living frame ...

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...hould under- stated your letter to have been penned in a house which could raise, and that very justly, the envy and the comments of the passers-by. I... ...d mirth. Take it for what it is, rough private jottings of the worst sides of Damien’s character, collected from the lips of those who had laboured wi... ...ame of mind. That you may understand how dangerous, and into what a situa- tion it has already brought you, we will (if you please) go hand-in-hand th...

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..., Accost him as ‘my goblin king! And always use, in answering, The phrase ‘your royal Whiteness!’ “I’m getting rather hoarse, I fear, Aft... ..., The wainscotings begin to go, So twenty is the limit.” “To trim” was not a phrase I could Remember having heard: “Perhaps,” I said, “you’ll be so go... ...ter true By putting everything I knew Into an axiom: Commencing every single phrase With ‘therefore’ or ‘because,’ I blindly reeled, a hundred ways, A... ... set down in a heap of mortar, will recognise the truthfulness of this happy phrase. For truly, just as the genuine Epicure lingers lov ingly over a ... ...ix the bits, and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes No difference at all. ‘Then, if you’d be impressive, Rememb... ... fleecy flocks Pent in a wheaten cell’?” “Why, yes,” the old man said: “that phrase Would answer very well. “Then fourthly, there are epithets That su... ...ed with joy Those sensational simpers: And I said “This is scrumptious!” — a phrase I had learned from the Devonshire shrimpers. And I vowed “‘T will ...

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...ing more than mere contentment, had been at work on it, he chose the happy phrase, ‘a gentlemanly residence.’ For it was, he declared, a small estate.... ...nce in my hearing, nor let it come to my ears that you have been using the phrase elsewhere. Don’t express astonishment. At present it is enough that ... ...inter. For her ladyship had proved acutely nipping. His little custom- ary phrases, to which Lady Camper objected, he could see no harm in whatever. C... ...Camper, in common civility, immediately after it. And first, what were the phrases he had to avoid uttering in her presence? He could remember only th... ...bmit, my lady,’ said the poor scourged man. ‘Why, naturally you do. Vulgar phrases have to be endured, except when our intimates are guilty, and then ... ...esteem, ever— and I repeat, I forbid you ever—to afflict my ears with that phrase, “lady-friend!”’ The General blinked in a state of insurgent humilit...

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...to the ideas that flashed through Rossini’s mind as he wrote the air. That phrase of Rossini’s, transmitted to those attentive souls, is worked out in... ...me, we hear the cries of the epileptic lover, his fury and certain warlike phrases, for the mighty charms of the one and only woman give him the impul... ...- sions (stretto in E major). Mahomet yields to the storm (in a descending phrase of diminished sevenths) and makes his escape. The fierce and gloomy ... ...s his escape. The fierce and gloomy tone of this finale is relieved by the phrases given to the three women who foretell Mahomet’s triumph, and these ... ...hony . But his heroic work is purely instrumental, whereas here, my heroic phrase is worked out on a sextette of the finest human voices, and a chorus... ...l of a refined craftsman who in his music has but picked up thou- sands of phrases out of other operas, damned or forgotten, and appropriated them, wh... ...yself in the elegant circle of a gallant court; I hear Isabella’s charming phrases, fresh, but almost melancholy, and the female chorus in two divisio... ... brutal desires of a man who is omnipotent, and the Princess, by plaintive phrases, tries to win her lover back to modera- tion. The musician has here...

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...ages, her tragic outpourings of love, humility, and pardon, with the scant phrases by which a man evades the vulgarest of sentimental importunities. H... ...ow, had joined himself to a lan- guidly convivial group of men to whom, in phrases as halting as though they struggled to define an ultimate idea, he ... ...ught admitted the ironical implication that in the terms of expediency the phrase might stand for Hollingsworth. II HE DINED ALONE and walked home to ... ...conditions of her life, the vistas of new relationships disclosed by every phrase, made her communications as impersonal as a piece of journalism. It ... ...at him, each word quickened by its glaring garb of type. The little broken phrases fled across the page like wounded animals in the open… . It was a h... ...aker’s words: his answers seemed to bring out a latent significance in her phrases, as the sculptor draws his statue from the block. Glennard, under h... ...I hadn’t read it!” Flamel returned, in the leisurely tone of the man whose phrases are punctuated by a cigarette, “It seems so to us, per- haps; but t... ... Europe to-morrow. He goes for a long time. I supposed you knew.” The last phrase revived his irritation. “Y ou forget that I de- pend on you for my i...

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...ct relation to life!” she used to reply, for she was always annoyed by the phrase—which would not in the least prevent her from using it when she wish... ... which she put up whenever she wanted not to see. She had come out, as the phrase is, immensely; and yet I felt as if she were surrounded with a spike... ...is sys- tem. He had dipped into French feuilletons and picked up plenty of phrases, and he made a much better show in talk than his poor mother, who n...

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...f abiding memories. And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, “followed the sea” with rev- erence and affection, than to evo... ...ches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely in- scrutable. He was a common trader, from his yo... ...o grinned as they hauled at the chain. Sev- eral exchanged short, grunting phrases, which seemed to settle the matter to their satisfaction. Their hea... ...e words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic cur- rent of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evide... ...gested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs. The woods were unmoved, like a mask... ...nd or floated in the air. I’ve been telling you what we said—repeating the phrases we pronounced, —but what’s the good? They were common everyday word... ...them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Soul! If anybody had ever struggled with a so... ...ore. Was he rehearsing some speech in his sleep, or was it a fragment of a phrase from some newspaper article? He had been writing for the papers and ... ...at my back, in the glow of fires, within the patient woods, those bro- ken phrases came back to me, were heard again in their ominous and terrifying s...

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...ther power to remove or any desire to remove. Will you take note of that phrase? Y.M. Y es. I have written it down; “Prejudices which noth ing with... ...o self sacrifices, but this is a thing which, in the ordinary value of the phrase, does not exist and has not ex isted. A man often honestly thinks... ...an whose self approval was lacking—whose conscience was troubling him, to phrase it with exactness— because he had neglected to kill a certain man —a... ...M. That no man has ever sacrificed himself in the com mon meaning of that phrase—which is, self sacrifice for another alone. Men make daily sacrific... ...lothes, Jane.” When she appeared in the door I opened my mouth to say that phrase—and out of it, moved by an instant surge of passion which I was not ... ...ffen sive. It elevates the dumb beasts to—to— O.M. Let us drop that lying phrase, and call them the Unrevealed Creatures; so far as we can know, ther... ...ot understand everything she says, but we easily learn two or three of her phrases. We know when she is saying, “I have laid an egg”; we know when she... ...l com merce, and I’ll make your fur fly!” We understand a few of a dog’s phrases and we learn to understand a few of the re marks and gestures of a... ...ll the look of reflection, thought, putting this and that together, as you phrase it. I believe it was thought. O.M. I will give you another instance ...

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...ude she never spoke to me, never, and for her diary also she could find no phrases. But on a loose half-sheet of notepaper between its pages I find th... ...ome and consult us about things and invariably do as we said. That, in his phrase- ology, was “maintaining the traditions of the school.” He had indee... ...urts beside the Cam. We were the anti-decency party, we discovered a catch phrase that we flourished about in the Union and made our watchword, namely... ... been growing in me, slowly, irregularly, assimilat- ing to itself all the phrases and forms of patriotism, diverting my religious impulses, utilising... ...tly? He helped to broaden my geographical sense immensely, and he provided phrases for just that desire for discipline and devotion and organised effo... ...d been accumulating. My words have long since passed out of my memory, the phrases of familiar expression have altered for me, but the substance remai... ...hildren of his life. Queer girls they were! Curiously “spirited” as people phrase it, and curiously limited. During my Cambridge days I went down to S... ...heir universe that the end of life is to have a “good time.” They used the phrase. That and the drives in dog-carts were only the first of endless poi... ...s quite pre- pared at first to identify their distinctive expressions with phrases of my own, and so we came very readily into an alliance that was to...

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...s BY D. H. LAWRENCE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE A nice phrase: “ A People’s Theatre.” But what about it? There’s no such thing in ... ...d the vermin we’ve got. GERALD. Vermin? The fool’s raving. Vermin!—Another phrase-maker, by God! Another phrase-maker to lead the people.—Vermin? What... ...must destroy its own—every parish must destroy its own vermin. GERALD. The phrase, my God! the phrase. JOB ARTHUR. Phrase or not phrase, there it is, ... ... Get out!—Ver- min!—Vermin!—I’ll vermin you! I’ll put my foot through your phrases. Get up, I say, get up and go—go! JOB ARTHUR. It’ll be you as’ll go...