10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COXCOMBIC»
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1
The autobiography of William Jerdan, with his literary, ...
... the shortest lived of human virtues ; but the compensation on the other hand of
liberal sentiments and generous sympathies have far outweighed the inflictions
of literary coxcombic pertness, and sheer stupidity and unprovoked malevolence.
2
Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some ...
It is wonderful what ignorance has been betrayed in criticism on this picture. Its
greatest beauties have been selected and condemned with all the assurance of
coxcombic pertness. Sir Joshua's works are a feast for the mind, which is what
very ...
Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor,
1865
3
Autobiography: With His Literary, Political, and Social ...
... the shortest lived of human virtues ; but the compensation on the other hand of
liberal sentiments and generous sympathies have far outweighed the inflictions
of literary coxcombic pertness, and sheer stupidity and unprovoked malevolence.
4
Oxford: With Biographical Notes and Other Poems
to vegetate secure From all that might to mental paths allure; To wake each
morning with no deeper thought Than that which yesterday's excess hath brought
; Then, wing'd by impulse, as the day proceeds, To follow where coxcombic
fashion ...
5
Selections from the Poetical Works: With Introductory ...
... coxcombic fashion leads,—Hark ! Woodstock rattles with eternal wheels, And
hounds are ever barking at his heels ; The Chapel, voted a terrific bore, The "
Dons,"—head-pieces for. 86 SELECTIONS FROM Dissolute Manners at College.
But the coxcombic strut, the ignorantpretence and shallow senselessness, of
some of Colburn's and Campbell's writers, would really make a dog sick; while
their zeal for taste, which they do not understand, and for gen. tility, which never
could ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch,
1830
... COWSKINS COWSLIP COWSLIPS COWY COX COXA COXAE COXAL
COXALGIA COXALGIAS COXALGIC COXALGIES COXALGY COXCOMB
COXCOMBIC COXCOMBICAL COXCOMBRIES COXCOMBRY COXCOMBS
COXED COXES ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood,
2013
But the coxcombic strut, the ignorant pretence and shallow senselessness, of
some of Colburn's and Campbell's writers, would really make a dog sick; while
their zeal for taste, which they do not understand, and for gentility, which never
could ...
But the coxcombic strut, the ignorant pretence and shallow senselessness, of
some of Colburn's and Campbell's writers, would really make a dog sick; while
their zeal for taste, which they do not understand, and for gentility, which never
could ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle,
1830
Yet one there was, of Treason's rebel crew, Coxcombic, vain, and avaricious too,
Who froth'd his reptile poison on thy name, To fill his pocket, and to puff his fame !
— Yes ! he who by thy bounty daily fed, Betray'd thee living, and befoul'd thee ...