| Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...oppositions of interest,5 and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was 1 'Domestic': 1. 'Belonging to the house; not relating... | |
| Robert Alter - Education - 1996 - 264 pages
...mentioned triadic series in the passage, to which one must add the flourishing of paired terms ("to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow," and so forth). Architectonic prose of various sorts often tends to a fondness for groupings... | |
| David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...positions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was delivered ..." More soberly, the French philosopher... | |
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