Besides the absurdities which Aristophanes throws, like lumps of salt, into his plays, there are choruses of the most exquisite poetry.
We should have a long story to tell if we wished to bring to light all the absurditiesthey have committed and the rubbish which has been palmed off on them for genuine antiques.
I was foolish," he thought, "not to leave Manners in London for a day, and get all the joyful absurdities of a first welcome over before he came down.
From such absurdities as these, or of the enthusiast who went into raptures about the head of the Elgin Ilissos (which is unfortunately a headless trunk), we are happily spared in the pages of Smollett.
It would be needless to point out the absurdities in the plan and conduct of the foregoing play; they are evidently great.
Many absurdities also appear: for instance, Roman bishops of the second and third centuries write in Frankish Latin of the ninth century in the spirit of post-Nicene orthodoxy and about the mediaeval relationship of the Church and state.
St. Bernard, however, capped the climax of these absurdities when he solemnly excommunicated the devil.
Who could have helped laughing at the absurdities of the pair, master and man?
But is it not a strange thing to see how readily this unhappy gentleman believes all these figments and lies, simply because they are in the style and manner of the absurdities of his books?
There was a madman in Seville who took to one of the drollest absurditiesand vagaries that ever madman in the world gave way to.
Now I see through their absurdities and deceptions, and it only grieves me that this destruction of my illusions has come so late that it leaves me no time to make some amends by reading other books that might be a light to my soul.
Of all the absurdities that, thanks to poetry, will be repeated to the end of time, there is no greater one than saying that "Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
All the others, without ideas or education, and issuing from the lower ranks, presented the types and the absurdities of the lesser bourgeoisie.
But, my dear Flavie, half the absurdities of life are the result of such conspiracies; and men are not alone in these deceptions.
The only escape from this tissue of absurdities is to think the ego otherwise than is done by popular consciousness.
Besides the familiar difficulty, here especially sensible, of one thing with many marks, it contains other absurdities of its own.
Can it be wondered that those who had such a childhood should grow up with an absolute horror of the Person in Whose name such things--absurdities when not positive crimes--were perpetrated?
They have all the absurditiesand crudities of mere individualism.
There was a brief discussion after his departure, in which Margaret was so critical of his dress and of his absurdities that Pauline was reassured, and presently indeed found herself taking their visitor's part against her sisters.
Besides, it was unkind not to have a word for her when she was always such a good listener to his tales of Miss Peasey, and when they could always laugh together at the same absurdities of daily life.
If we may suppose such things, there are no absurdities that we may not suppose.
The absurdities into which men are led by the hypothesis of a later origin of the Pentateuch, are here seen in a remarkable instance--viz.
I know a great many people who can see nothing comic in the upside-down antics of the drunken; they feel as if in laughing at the absurdities of vice they would be acquiescing in vice.
Life is mainly a procession of absurdities in which lovers and theologians and philosophers and collectors of bric-a-brac are the most amusing figures.
Further absurdities hereupon are declared by Mr. Bain,[41] and after him by Mr. Ball.
What gross absurdities would follow, should not these two societies, viz.
Finally, diversabsurdities unavoidably follow upon the granting of a proper formal power of Church government to the civil magistrate: therefore he cannot be the proper subject of such power.
And the absurdities of such popular government are intolerable, as after will appear.
I shall divert myself with her absurdities without scruple.
Whatever the absurdities in their code of honour, however ludicrous the etiquette of the 'comment' as it is called, there is a world of manly honesty and true-heartedness among them.
I fully admit that a belief in a current supernaturalism, as for instance in the absurdities of witchcraft, survived the Reformation.
His readers are invited to believe that the followers of our Lord were a prey to the belief in a number of ineffable absurdities respecting demons such as he has enumerated.
Probably there are no writings in existence from which a more monstrous set of absurdities can be collected than from those of the Talmudists.
Next the absurdities in the Apocryphal Book of Tobit are put in as evidence, although the contrary evidence afforded by the other books of the Apocrypha, which contain no traces of such superstitions, is left without mention.
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