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  • Those fearsome interviewers fairly mobbed him, and he told them, in the _prettiest_ broken English, that "piano playing with the hands suited well enough the pale-blooded law-abiding people of yesterday, but that the full-pulsing stormy emotions of to-day could only be adequately expressed by the _elbows_!"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 Various 1898

  • As if there were nothing admirable in a man save unbroken obedience to the letter of the moral law, and that letter read in our own casual and local interpretation; and as if we had no faculties of sympathy, no sense for the beauty of character, no feeling for broad force and full-pulsing vitality.

    Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880

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