a something of a certain, or a blue
“good things,” and a something of
But these may be but parts of a mannerism, or of the author’s disguise ₁
or a blue, or unacquainted with life
a something of mind ₂
a something of over-precision and studiedness, and
the want of perfect plasticity ₃
before their confused imagination something vague and gray,
but yet a something of a certain outline and certain tints ₄
sources —
- ex anonymous review of (an equally anonymous) Entries; or, Stray Leaves from a Clergyman’s Note Book [London, 1853] in The Nonconformist 13:427 (January 4, 1854) : 14 : more
- John F. W. Ware, “The Young Woman’s Mistakes and Dangers,” in The Monthly Religious Magazine (March 1868) : 205 : more
- Matthew Seton, “Recent Shakesperian Revivals, I. — Hamlet and Macbeth, at the Lyceum,” New Monthly Magazine (February 1877) : 178 : more
- Abraham Kuyper, chapter 12 “The Spirit of Many Which Is in Him,” in Asleep in Jesus : Meditations (John Hendrik De Vries, trans., 1929) : 83 : more