| Re: Feel the more profoundly |
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Group: alt.usage.english · Group Profile
Author: CDBCDB Date: Jun 13, 2008 06:39
Marius Hancu wrote:
> Do you still that "feel the more profoundly" is still contemporary
> usage?
> Of course, I appreciate its elegance ...
> 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?
Do you mean to ask whether contemporary usage would drop "the"? That
would change the meaning: "the" stands for "for that reason" or
"because of what she was doing". If you are asking whether a modern
writer of Flaubert's calibre would write the same passage differently:
no doubt.
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