In order to show the utter hollowness of this attack, it may be sufficient to look at the date and circumstances M. Szemere talks of.

It may be that his hatred of evilof hollowness, impurity, self-will, conceit, ostentationwas greater than was always his perception of various and mingled good, or his comprehension of those middle things and states which are so much before us now.

But the blame of this want of depth in the portraying of character, and generally of the whole poetical and moral hollowness of this newer comedy, lay less with the comic writers than with the nation as a whole.

For to the south lay Sally Fortune, and at the thought of her a singular hollowness came about his heart, a loneliness, not for himself, but for her.

Lancelot sickened over it for many a long day; not, indeed, mourning at his private losses, but at the thorough hollowness of the system which it exposed, about which he spoke his mind pretty freely to his uncle, who bore it good-humouredly enough.

At one time the beauty and passion of it almost make us forget its ultimate hollowness; at another this hollowness almost makes us lose patience with its beautiful language.

It was not the unusual hollowness of eyes and cheeks.

Methinks, a long patch here, beneath her eye, Might hide that dismal hollowness.

In due order as they move, Echoes sweet be gently drove Thorough heaven's vast hollowness, Which unto all corners press: Music that the heart of Jove Moves to joy and sportful love; Fills the listening sailers' ears Riding on the wandering spheres: Neither speech nor language is Where their voice is not transmiss.