abruptnesses

Through the azure deep of air -- without being stopped, or fretted, or diverted with the abruptnesses and petty obstacles, and discordant flats and sharps of prose, that poetry was invented.

English literary criticism Various

The quotation in Eusebius contains several words which appear in the Vossian Epistles, but not in the Curetonian; and as the absence of these words produces one of those abruptnesses which are characteristic of the Curetonian letters, the fact is really important for the question under discussion [73: 4].

Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

But though one could see all its bulgings, round swells, and precipitous abruptnesses, it looked as much akin to the clouds as to solid earth and rock substance.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale. 1798

What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Charles Brockden Brown 1790

Would not their projectures and abruptnesses serve me as steps by which I might ascend in safety?

Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790

Through the azure deep of air -- "without being stopped, or fretted, or diverted with the abruptnesses and petty obstacles, and discordant flats and sharps of prose, that poetry was invented.

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804