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Description Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
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- What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
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- The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith