And yet, singularly enough, in this novel are to be found some of Smollett’s most original creations and most felicitously conceived situations.
David Hannay felicitously remarks: ‘It was Smollett’s good fortune that he saw the navy at the very lowest ebb it has reached since there was a navy in England.
Browning is made very happy by her words, and he feels that his poor praise "was nearly as felicitously brought out as a certain tribute to Tasso, which amused me in Rome some weeks ago," he says.
The party rejoicings and festivities at the conclusion of this election are felicitously related by Wraxall, who enjoyed the advantages of himself participating in the scenes he pictures.
It seemed impossible that we should actually be near a person so felicitously born.
The perpetuity of our institutions, the honor of what General Sherman so felicitously called the "old glory," demand the country shall always and in every appropriate way honor and reward the men who kept it a Nation.
Mr. Lincoln felicitously expressed it to be a "government of the people, by the people, for the people.
I have supposed that all of these meetings were expressions of patriotism and of popular interest in a Government which Mr. Lincoln so felicitously described as "a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Darrell, with the kindness which his fine quick intellect enabled him so felicitously to apply, hastened to relieve the young guardsman's mind.
Dwight Foster felicitously applied to him the sentence which was first uttered of Charles James Fox, that "his intellect was all feeling, and his feeling all intellect.
He describes Mr. Gladstone most felicitously as "inspired by a mixture of genius and vexation.
The new idea is truest which performs most felicitously its function of satisfying this double urgency.
And again, 'That new idea is truest which performs most felicitously its function of satisfying our double urgency'.
Ellipses like these are for poetry only, and not always felicitously employed, even in verse.
He was not one of those who could say smart things, though he could depict a humorous episode or situation as felicitously as anyone of his age.
Seldom has the philosophy of wedded bliss been more felicitously stated than in his Advice to Mr. ---- on his Marriage.
Guizot felicitously observes, were the natural course of things, and the hidden ways of Providence, less understood.
Things are felicitously seen by Mr. Burroughs, and then felicitously said.
It was not until the publication of Aylwin that the name of Theodore Watts, or as he afterwards elected to be called Watts-Dunton, became widely known outside what are sometimes not very felicitously described as “literary circles.
The Virgilian line our orator introduced so felicitously is omitted.
The high style of conversation where eloquence and philosophy emulate each other, where principles are profoundly expounded and felicitously illustrated, all this has ceased.
And you're so felicitously taught when you don't know it.
I would not agree in advance to be silent, when you should repeat and improve on those outrages, and consummate what had been so felicitously begun.
He published a pamphlet entitled "The Slanders of Punch" felicitously quoting as his motto from Proverbs xxvi.
But none of these verses, doggerel and otherwise, expressed more felicitously the general feeling than those which had been written some years before by Henry J.
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