prolixity

• It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators A practical Treatise on Eclipses ... with remarks on the anomalies of the present Theory of the Tides. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• All these romances now require some indulgence for their prolixity, and their Platonic amours; but they have not been surpassed in the wildness of their inventions, the ingenuity of their incidents, the simplicity of their style, and their curious manners. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• But this prolixity is partly owing to the want of art and method, and is common to all early compositions, in which everything is related circumstantially and without rejection, and not in those general terms which are used by modern writers." —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
• It is related with much less than the usual prolixity, and contains two characters of distinct individuality. —  A History of English Prose Fiction
• His poems are often disfigured by bombast, prolixity, and misplaced learning; but his keen eye for men and things is undeniable, and his feeling for Nature shews not only in dealing with scenery, but in linking it with the inner life The lover's wish in On Virginity_,[34] one of his longer poems, suggests the Volkslieder O that I too might go, if my hurrying foot could poise amid the lights of heaven and hold on its starry course. —  The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

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