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That sets the key, so to speak; that ensures that the Universe shall come flowing in, not in a continuous rush, but in aphorismic drops.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

When he gets out of this aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

When he gets out of his aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English.” dislike for Dr. Johnson.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob