> Hello:
>
> Do you still that
> "feel the more profoundly"
> is still contemporary usage?
>
> Of course, I appreciate its elegance ...
>
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> Was it the better to deceive them both? Or did she wish by a sort of
> voluptuous stoicism to feel the more profoundly the bitterness of the
> things she was about to leave?
>
> Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
> http://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/bovary/section22.html
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It's old fashioned. as much of that translation seems to be. The "the" is
redundant.