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... fancy ; it is indulged in , for the most part , through the want of this faculty , and in a desperate effort to conceal the void alike from speaker and listener . Yet perhaps of all figures humanity can least spare the hyperbole ; it is ...
... fancy ; it is indulged in , for the most part , through the want of this faculty , and in a desperate effort to conceal the void alike from speaker and listener . Yet perhaps of all figures humanity can least spare the hyperbole ; it is ...
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... fancy works in the trammels of a certain subservi ence to fact ; and that is panegyric . The original Panegyrical Oratory is said to have grown out of a strong feeling of the pleasure of existence ; and a short- lived bombastic ...
... fancy works in the trammels of a certain subservi ence to fact ; and that is panegyric . The original Panegyrical Oratory is said to have grown out of a strong feeling of the pleasure of existence ; and a short- lived bombastic ...
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... his sighs do not magnify and accumulate into a high wind . Nothing obvious , nothing naturally suggested by the subject , passed for poetic fancy ; truth and feeling were the last things thought of ; -in this 14 SOCIAL HYPERBOLE .
... his sighs do not magnify and accumulate into a high wind . Nothing obvious , nothing naturally suggested by the subject , passed for poetic fancy ; truth and feeling were the last things thought of ; -in this 14 SOCIAL HYPERBOLE .
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... fancy with a double satisfaction - it magnifies the common and familiar , which is our native sphere , and brings the vast within an easy distance . Through this sleight of hand , there is nothing that a good hearty hyperbole does not ...
... fancy with a double satisfaction - it magnifies the common and familiar , which is our native sphere , and brings the vast within an easy distance . Through this sleight of hand , there is nothing that a good hearty hyperbole does not ...
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... fancy itself gives tone . By affecting to magnify trouble , though it be real , the fun that works in every situation in life is brought to the front . Thus , if a man wants us to feel for him or for his cause he must not exaggerate ...
... fancy itself gives tone . By affecting to magnify trouble , though it be real , the fun that works in every situation in life is brought to the front . Thus , if a man wants us to feel for him or for his cause he must not exaggerate ...
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