"Emotive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as anything that befell Orestes or Rinaldo. He sat up half the night, living again through the moments since he had first discerned Mirah on the river-brink, with the fresh and fresh vividness which belongs to emotive memory. When he took up a book to try and dull this urgency of inward vision, the printed words were no more than a network through which he saw and heard everything as clearly as before—saw not only the actual events of two hours, ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... the diamond has dropped from its setting, is the Bible, when its emotive truths have been taken away. What a babe's clothes are, when the babe has slipped out of them into death and the mother's arms clasp only raiment, would be the Bible, if the Babe of Bethlehem, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... reformer who did not exactly toe the Organic Party line as promulgated by J.l. Rodale. Consequently his books are relatively unknown to today's gardening public. If you like Wendell Berry you'll find Bromfield's emotive and Iyrical prose even finer and less academically contrived. His experiments with ecological farming are inspiring. See also Bromfield's other farming books: Pleasant Valley, In My Experience, and Out of the ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... Emotive language may continue when the language of ideas (Begriffssprache) is completely extinguished, and idiotic children without ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... years. His elocution also surprised those who had derived their impressions from the English journals. His voice is a superb tenor, and possesses that pathetic tremble which is so effective in what is called emotive eloquence, while his delivery was as well suited to the communication he had to make as ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb |
