10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COXCOMBICAL»
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coxcombical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected ...
Coxcombical. Priefl. LEST Our silence heretofore with regard to the fojiies of this
cleiical coxcomb, should be con Irucd into a tacit approbation of hs conduct ; We
now assure him, through theme- elude him their society, until he.hai given ...
2
Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer. Second series. ...
The coxcombical puppy,” added the young woman with a spiteful bitterness
indicative of a peculiar and personal animosity, “ the coxcombical puppy was
glad, not long since, to get tick for a go of brandy, and now, forsooth, he turns up
his snub ...
he grumbled. "What! and you talking and laughing all evening with a pack of
coxcombical toadies and fortune-hunters who can no more appreciate yon — " ' '
Stop a, Sninute, Randal. If you are kind enough to be afraid of my head being
turned ...
Near him rode Murat, mounted upon a gold-clad c_harger,—and very handsome
he was too, but coxcombical.” Like the rest of human kind, Landor had his
prejudices,—they were very many. Foremost among them was an antipathy to the
...
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Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition: Fielding, Richardson, ...
23 This is precisely the 'coxcombical moral sense' Lamb had feared and derided
in the essay quoted at the beginning of the chapter. The early eighteenth-century
sentimental comedy of Colley Cibber, Richard Steele and their contemporaries ...
THE COXCOMBICAL COUNSEL. THE jovial otxnoKL. A BARRISTER'S
CHRISTMAS-TIDE TEMTTATION. * Honos an. □which abundantly distinguishes
them from the preceding classes. They have all this in common, that they are in
the habit ...
7
A Selection from the Writings, Prose, and Poetical, of the ...
Mr. Torrens' manner too, to speak frankly, and to use plain language, had
something, we must confess, a little coxcombical in it, and a strong feeling of self-
satisfaction was too often exhibited in every look and tone and gesture. Those
who ...
Henry Whitelock Torrens, James Hume, 1854
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The European Magazine, and London Review
... we find, appeared " Tall storking/*,) hort bolater'd breeches, and such types of
travel," nd who, from their (1 utter of silk, vel- ei,(c) and plumes, from the variety of
their clours :rhd their coxcombical appearance, btained among 'lie plain, sober, ...
9
The United Service Magazine
Lamont, on being termed a coxcombical puppy at the mess-table, a right to
demand satisfaction for the same ? Ought Lieut. Patten (putting the service on
one side) to have refused giving that satisfaction (by explanation or otherwise) ?
10
The Trial of Thomas Saxelbye on a Charge of Forgery of a ...
A. Yes ; and it appears that he had a coxcombical way of signing ; and when he
signed " Thomas," he' wrote the "T" in the same way as if he was going to write "
Thomas Robinson's compliments;" but he had a particular mode of signing ; that
is, ...
Thomas Saxelbye, William Brodie Gurney, 1821
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COXCOMBICAL»
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coxcombical is used in the context of the following news items.
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems
That a mitre should cover a Man guilty of the most coxcombical, tyrannical and indolent impertinence! I repeat this word for the offense appears ... «The New Republic, Oct 14»
The two generals
The Maratha was a leathery old curmudgeon who displayed the most coxcombical variant of vanity and conceitedness, and operated so ... «Hindu Business Line, May 14»
Taiwan embraces hit Japan TV series 'Hanzawa Naoki'
Wen said he was deeply impressed by the performance of actors in the series, describing them as being exaggerated but not coxcombical. «Taiwan Today, Nov 13»
