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Zakonnick24 января 2014 г.Нет в природе другой столь демонически нетерпеливой страсти, как страсть, обуревающая человека, который, трепеща на краю пропасти, вот так смакует падение туда.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.I felt particularly puzzled, and when a man is particularly puzzled he must knit his brows and look savage, or else he is pretty sure to look like a fool.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.Before I had time to make any remark, however, upon so singular a circumstance, he interrupted me with a second «ahem!».
To this observation I was not immediately prepared to reply. The fact is, remarks of this laconic nature are nearly unanswerable.7459
innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.He insisted upon leaping the stile, and said he could cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air. Now this, conscientiously speaking, I did not think he could do. The best pigeon-winger over all kinds of style was my friend Mr. Carlyle, and as I knew he could not do it, I would not believe that it could be done by Toby Dammit.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.The truth is, there was something in the air with which Mr. Dammit was wont to give utterance to his offensive expression – something in his manner of enunciation – which at first interested, and afterwards made me very uneasy – something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to call queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.Читать далееThe fact is that his precocity in vice was awful. At five months of age he used to get into such passions that he was unable to articulate. At six months, I caught him gnawing a pack of cards. At seven months he was in the constant habit of catching and kissing the female babies. At eight months he peremptorily refused to put his signature to the Temperance pledge. Thus he went on increasing in iniquity, month after month, until, at the close of the first year, he not only insisted upon wearing moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and swearing, and for backing his assertions by bets.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.In short, it has been shown that no man can sit down to write without a very profound design. Thus to authors in general much trouble is spared. A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there – that is to say, it is somewhere – and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light,
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has.
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innashpitzberg16 апреля 2013 г.About the refinements, or, as he called them, the 'ghost' of wit, the king troubled himself very little. He had an especial admiration for breadth in a jest, and would often put up with length, for the sake of it. Over-niceties wearied him. He would have preferred Rabelais' 'Gargantua' to the 'Zadig' of Voltaire: and, upon the whole, practical jokes suited his taste far better than verbal ones.
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Dikij_sad11 января 2011 г.«…И чело его было высоко от многих дум, и взор его был безумен от многих забот; и в немногих бороздах его ланит я прочел повествование о скорби, усталости, отвращении к роду людскому и жажде уединения…»
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