10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COXCOMBRIES»
Discover the use of
coxcombries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
coxcombries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations
They are quite unlike the vapid cool coxcombries of an English dandy ; they are
picturesque, wild, and outrageous ; and as the bodily Disraeli used to be seen
some years ago about town, arrayed in green inexpressibles with a gold stripe
dow ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, George Saintsbury, 1829
2
Israel at Vanity Fair: Jews and Judaism in the Writings of ...
They are quite unlike the vapid cool coxcombries of an English dandy; they are
picturesque, wild, and outrageous; and as the bodily Disraeli used to be seen
some years ago about town, arrayed in green inexpressibles with a gold stripe
down ...
Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 1992
In spite, however, of the Charles Edmonstone, and similar style of self-painting in
Blackwood, and kindred miscellanies, and the fulsome coxcombries of the Hook
and Ultra Tory school, including the ' Exclusives,' the ' Tenth,' and all other ...
John Scott, John Taylor, 1828
The coxcombries of Mr. Hunt's style both of thought and language, were these
things new, and were they all, might indeed furnish inextinguishable laughter to
the most saturnine of readers. But we had slipped full with these absurdities long
...
5
The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal
Of all literary coxcombries it is one of the most disgusting. It is a tacit profession of
being occupied only with the higher requisites of poetry, and of unwillingness to
condescend to the cultivation of minor graces — it is one mode of pretending to ...
6
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
In this point device spirit were the coxcombries of “Pelham” arraigned. “ Per7
fumes, indeed—how effeminate l” “ Almond paste l—I wonder of what materials
he thinks he must be made; soap would do for him as well as other people.
I wish she * To wear red-heeled shoes, and to be an adept " In the nice conduct
of a clouded cane," which was carried suspended from the wrist, were the
prevailing coxcombries of the " pretty fellow " of the days of Queen Anne and
George I.
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1841
... COXALGY COXCOMB COXCOMBIC COXCOMBICAL COXCOMBRIES
COXCOMBRY COXCOMBS COXED COXES COXING COXITIDES COXITIS
COXLESS COXOTUBERCULOSES COXOTUBERCULOSIS COXSWAIN
COXSWAINED ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
9
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of ...
... they were two thousand years ago. But how much more extraordinary is it that,
whereas what we might call the coxcombries of education, e.g., the elements of
astronomy are now taught to every schoolgirl, neither mothers of families of any ...
10
The Military and Naval Magazine of the United States
... enemy might receive if he stood in the place of either. But, notwithstanding
these little coxcombries, the Yorkers were entitled to a precedency, and we all
regarded the chances of the coming enterprise, as being greatlyimproved by the
dash.
