The merits and defects of the subject are presented in a series of pointed and aphoristic sentences; and the likeness is gained, as in a portrait of Rembrandt, by the powerful contrast and proximity of lights and shadows.
Written by "the World's master of aphoristic thought and expression.
As the creative power of the Godhead, the bearer of revelation and representative of God upon earth, the expression "the word" had already appeared in aphoristic literature.
And, to herself, "Golly, it's such a relief not to have to try to be gracious and aphoristic and repartistic and everything with Jeff.
Footnote 30: Long-winded and tortuous and difficult to seize as Shaftesbury is as a whole, in detached sentences he shows marked aphoristic quality; e.
And if we compare Vauvenargues with any of our English aphoristic writers, there is not resemblance enough to make the contrast instructive.
In this department, the observations of the great philosopher are often minute, and generally accurate, although usually too aphoristic and unconnected to be of much use to the student.
Iago's moral creed may be summed up in two of his aphoristic sayings,--"Virtue!
But when we turn from theaphoristic proverbs of the people to the aphoristic maxims of the wise, a deep distinction and contrast confront us.
Dodsley's principal work was the "Economy of Human Life," written in anaphoristic style, and ascribed to Lord Chesterfield.
Cicero uses two corresponding words cavillatio and dicacitas, the former signifying continuous, the latter aphoristic humour.
The play combines love intrigues, as absurd as those usual in contemporary plays, with lucid declamation and aphoristic moralizing.
We have here a curious specimen of aphoristic poetry, the idea borrowed probably from the Proverbs of Solomon.
We have here another specimen ofaphoristic poetry.
The aphoristic nature of such tasks as those set you by this Goethe celebration must involuntarily be transferred to the artistic production, which therefore cannot attain to perfect warmth.
