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High-spirited,flown with words, Sidney seized his pen too carelessly. Butalas,
softness has weighed down our steps; brambles have caught atour clothing.
As
she argues,as she reasons, we hear Temple almost as clearly as we hear
Dorothyherself. Now she was mistress of herhusbands house at The Hague with its
splendid buffet of plate. So by degrees the book floatsaway into the thin air
of limbo.
Lady Sunderland, for instance, has condescendedto marry plain Mr. The
whole world that Dorothy had brought into existence isextinguished. So, in
spite of the text-books, writers maylive at the same time and see nothing the
same size.
In prose, hebethinks himself, one must not use the common words of
dailyspeech. My wax candles almost out, buthowever Ill begin.
Of the womanly
virtues that befitted her age she shows littletrace.
She shrank from any
extravagance that could draw the censure of theworld upon her.
Phrase by phrase
we come closer into touch withit. Now she was mistress of herhusbands house at
The Hague with its splendid buffet of plate.
Robinson Crusoe, it may be, is a
case in point.
The art of letter-writing is often the art of essay-writing in
disguise.
In the Arcadia, as in some luminous globe, all the seeds of
Englishfiction lie latent.
Yet there were limits, shereflected, to
free-and-easiness: .
Yet suddenly shedeclared that marry him she would not.
Then, behold, something floats onthe waters.
We findourselves with shepherds in
spring on those sands which lieagainst the Island of Cithera.
Of the womanly
virtues that befitted her age she shows littletrace.
Yet how couldcomment have
made it more impressive?
Of the two Temple was by far the morerobust and
positive.
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