"Circumlocutory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Racine felt this, and merely refined the forms without changing the main incidents. The mutes and the strangling were motives which in a seraglio could hardly be dispensed with; and so he gives, on several occasions, very elegant circumlocutory descriptions of strangling. This is, however, inconsistent; when people are so familiar with the idea of a thing, they usually call it also by its ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black |
