Long-sighted continuity of thought and plan
Looking at the matter by and large
Looming large and ugly in the public view
Loose and otiose statement [otiose = lazy; indolent; of no use]
Lost in indolent content
Lovely beyond all words
Lucidity and argumentative vigor
Lulled into a sense of false satisfaction
M
Maddened by a jealous hate
Maintained with ingenuity and vigor
Manifestly harsh and barbarous
Marvelous copiousness of illustration
Marvelously suggestive and inspiring
Men of profound erudition [erudition = extensive learning]
Mere effects of negligence
Microscopic analysis of character
Mingled distrust and fear
Ministering to mere pleasure and indulgence
Minutely and rationally exposing their imperfections
Morbid and subjective brooding
More or less severe and prolonged
Moved to unaccustomed tears
My worst suspicions were confirmed
Mysterious and invincible darkness
N
Naked vigor of resolution
Naturally prone to believe
Necessity thus imposed by prudence
Nerveless and faithless folly
No more than brief palliatives or mitigations
Noble and sublime patience
Noisy torrent of talk
Not averse to a little gossip
Not so much polished as varnished
Noted for their quixotic love of adventure
Nothing could be more captious or unfair [captious = disposition to find and point out trivial faults]
Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence
Notoriously distracted by internecine jealousies
O
Objects of general censure
Obscured beneath the rubbish of the age
Obsessed with an overweening pride
Obstacles that are difficult but not insuperable
Obviously at variance with facts
Occasioned by direct moral turpitude [turpitude = depravity; baseness]
Oddly amenable to the proposed innovations
Often employed promiscuously
Ominous and swift days