"Parenthetical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... delayed the main argument too long for the parenthetical purpose of showing that the great democratic dream, like the great mediaeval dream, has in a strict and practical sense been a dream unfulfilled. Whatever is the matter with modern England it is not that we have carried out too literally, or achieved with disappointing completeness, either ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton
... This, however, is parenthetical. I caught hold of FitzGerald's verses to express that jollity which should be every man's who looks up from much reading or writing and knows that ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... this rule is the correcting of a missing open o, q.v.) Sentences that have been taken from the Arte are indicated by the parenthetical recording of the leaf number of the ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... promptly took the war-path, as an esteemed contemporary expressed it in reporting the difficulty with the cynical lightness and the profusion of felicitous head-lines with which our journalism often alleviates the history of tragic occurrences: the parenthetical touch in the closing statement, that "Mr. Hubbard leaves a (divorced) wife and child somewhere at the East," was ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... will find some verses to that effect at the end of these notes. If you are an impatient reader, skip to them at once. In reading aloud, omit, if you please, the sixth and seventh verses. These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them. Many people can ride on horseback who find it hard to get on and to get off without assistance. One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... following example from Caldern: Vive Dios! que no he salido. ("El Mgico Prodigioso," Act III, v. 387.) In these examples, the vive dios! is hardly more than an emphatic digo, and is followed by que just as digo would be. Verse 810 is parenthetical. ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup |
