10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOOBYISM»
Discover the use of
boobyism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boobyism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Supplementary English Glossary
Irving, Salmagundi, No. iii. BOOBYISM, stupidity ; folly. The donkeys who are
prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and
boobyism on the stage of a private theatre. — Sketches by Boi (Private Theatre*).
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
2
The Works of Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz
BOOBYISM ON THE STAGE 93 partners round, nothing loth, scrambling and
falling, and embracing, and knocking up against the other couples, until they are
fairly tired out, and can move no longer. The same scene is repeated again and ...
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, 1901
3
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal ...
Resem ling abooby; silly; stupid. boobyism (bo'bi-izm), n. [< booby + -ism.] The
character or actions of a booby; stupidity; foolishness. The donkeys who are
prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and
boobi ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1904
4
The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan Poems V2: ...
Whom self-conceit and boobyism combine to Daze: And that this mausoleum
might have nowhere A peer, Shadowing the creamy marble verdant-ly should
Appear A venerable yew, of all trees in the U-ni-verse, That passengers might
pause ...
James Clarence Mangan, Jacques Chuto, Peter Van De Kamp, 1996
My Mausoleum III Whom self-conceit and boobyism combine to Daze: And that
this mausoleum might have nowhere A peer, Shadowing the creamy marble
verdant-ly should Appear A venerable yew, of all trees in the U-ni-verse, That ...
James Clarence Mangan, Jacques Chuto, 1996
private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop till , or
overcharged in the office expenditure , by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to
pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the
stage of a ...
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Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
This idea of wonderful liberality joined with eternal energy and progress must
spread over India, it must electrify the whole nation and must enter the very pores
of society in spite of the horrible ignorance, spite, caste-feeling, old boobyism,
and ...
8
The Iris, Or Literary Messenger
We say fashionable — how otherwise, when nonsense and soft poetry, flat
criticism and its usual adjuncts — brass and boobyism, are adored, nay idolized
by " people in society," even when perpetrated as usual with an utter disregard of
the ...
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Hartly House, Calcutta. [A novel.]
... l what should tometo pass, but his imbibing so exalted an idea 'of the height
and depth of my deservings', that he falls into the state of boobyism, which
causcd' ..' - I p a" all my suspense, folly, &e. &c.-for,'though his respect for '. ...
10
The Effinghams: Or Home as I Found it ...
Eve Effingham, though naturally a beautiful girl, and possessed of a mind
capable of being trained to all the proprieties and even elegancies of life, had, by
the association, contracted some of her father's travelled boobyism, and as she ...
