"Verboseness" Quotes from Famous Books
... him talk. The man seems pleased with his own volubility; and, whenever he has collected together abundance of smooth things, he wants me to find an ear for them! Yet he need not; for I don't often gratify him either with giving him the praise for his verboseness, or shewing the pleasure in it that ... — Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson |