"Prolixity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [excuse the fanciful prolixity,] was I employed, and such were my thoughts and imaginations, when I found a very different result from the ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... subtleties, and often charmingly told. Flyveposten ("The Flying Mail") was translated into English (Boston and Cambridge, 1870) but attracted no particular attention. For all that, Goldschmidt, in spite of occasional prolixity, stands the test of time remarkably well. His Jewish stories, notably Maser, Aron og Esther, and En Joede, contain a higher order of work, though less dramatically effective, than that of Sacher-Masoch, and Emil Franzos, ...
— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... according to any of the mesmeric hypotheses, any mesmeric reason why it should not have succeeded: it was, however, declined. We are obliged to omit many other points in this evening's proceedings to avoid prolixity. Though many facts were curious, and certainly not easy of explanation by ordinary means, there was nothing which defied it; every experimentum crucis failed, and we, of course, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... omitting some circumstances which he might have been expected to have retained, and adding others with good judgment and in general with good effect, but which by some fatality usually tend in his hands to excessive prolixity. This is certainly not the case with his dignified and spirited exordium, but in the fourth stanza he begins to copy history, and his muse's wing immediately flags. No more striking example of the superiority of dramatic ...
— The Battaile of Agincourt • Michael Drayton
... passages of narrative and description show that he had a poet's feeling for beauty; he handles the language with the strength and skill of a master. On the other hand, he lacks all sense of proportion, and cannot shape an imaginative plan; his prolixity wearies the reader, and it cannot be denied that as a moral reformer he sometimes topples into immorality. The success of the poem was extraordinary, and extended far beyond France. It was attacked and defended, and ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
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