But for clear exposition, smooth and agreeable narrative, sententious and pointed brevity, witty repartee, it soon proves itself to have no superior and scarcely an equal in Europe.
Rivarol's somewhat sententiousconceit that the French language has a 'probite attachee a son genie' is not a conceit merely.
But even here it is to be observed that the explanation is in a manner necessary to take off the air of sententious enigma, which the words 'le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer' might have had by themselves.
It is sometimes a little too sententiousin tone, and suffers from the habit, induced probably by Pensee-writing, of composing in very brief paragraphs.
La Rochefoucauld is never enigmatical, rarelysententious merely, and is almost indifferent to the production of mots.
Who could have made a lovlier Marcia than did Nance; and how thoroughly she must have justified the passion of that most virtuous of princes, the sententious Juba.
Shakespeare and Scott have condescended to caricature the style or the manner of the inventor of euphuism: I cannot think their burlesque of his elaborate and sententious triviality so happy, so humorous, or so exact as this.
Lift," said the Iroquois in the sententious manner of his race; and by a trifling effort the canoe was raised from the rock, held a moment in the air to empty it, and then placed carefully on the water in its proper position.
Cherry remarked to Alvar that Jack had improved, and was lesssententious than he used to be; but the cause of this increased geniality had struck no one.
I know it begins with some other letter, and she hath the prettiest sententious of it, of you and Rosemary, that it would do you good to heare it Rom.
By my faith, he is very swift, andsententious Clo.
It stooped to truth and moralized its song," finding its favorite occupation in the sententious expression of platitudes--the epigram in satire, the maxim in serious work.
He snubbed them with sententious arrogance, leavened with sarcasm.
It makes all the difference in the world whether they send for you, or whether you go to them for an engagement," she told me, with a sententious nod of her head.
He confided the details of the lady's latest excursion into the realm of the illicit, with the sententious air of, "There!
In reading great Welsh sermons, and listening to Welsh preachers, we have often felt how much the spirit of their own triads, and the manner of old Catwg the Wise, and other such sententious bards, falls into their modern method.
The manuscript contains two hundred and nineteen poems, besides ditties and sententious sayings.
Yet perhaps the Italian writings of this period, with their flowing grace, are more agreeable than the sententious antitheses of the Spaniards.
His odes have, however, a character totally different from those of Horace, though the sententious air which marks the style of both authors imparts to them a deceptive resemblance.
But this sententious and antithetical style of the Spanish writers is worthy of our attention; for it was imitated by their English admirers, and formed a style much in vogue in the reigns of Elizabeth and James.
Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and oracular.
For no man acquainted with human nature could think that a sententious couplet would undo all the mischief that five profligate acts had done.
And hence the Pythian Apollo, directed by the national ideas of the Dorians, particularly countenanced their philosophers, to whose sententious mode of expression his own oracles bore a certain resemblance.
This love of seclusion took a singular turn in the reserve, and in the short and sententious mode of expression, practised by the Laconians.
In spite of the sententious coolness with which he pretended to speak, I saw that he was powerfully and painfully affected.
Witty and humorous, sententious and didactic, solemn and pathetic, he not only pleases the fancy, but touches the heart.
His principal merit and character in them, is that of producing majestic and forcible thoughts, grand images, and sententious maxims, without effort, and with the greatest simplicity.
At the same time with the Purists appeared the Concettisti, punsters, and utterers of grave saws in frigid and sententious language: D.
