10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROTCHETEER»
Discover the use of
crotcheteer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
crotcheteer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
embraced his new friends before he throws them off m up for being a much wiser
man than others; where- nary print when brought to that nearncss to the eye as
the pretended crotcheteer wishes to bring others to , which they require; and ...
2
The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and ...
Society is too long-sighted for the minus, and too short-sighted for the plus,
crotcheteer ; too stunted for the giant, and too tall for the dwarf. It is scarcely
possihle for a score of persons to act together without soon finding that they have
a minus ...
A long while ago he had guessed that his friend, the hot, fluffy, nice-looking
young man was none other than one more usual wealthy crotcheteer, self-
centered and selfish, however, not a self-seeker and full of conceit no more and
no less than ...
4
The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
... he is the nearest thing in the novel to an old-style crotcheteer, with his
relentless pessimism, his blind idealism of approach and his absurd chastity.
However, he burgeons as an old-style crotcheteer never could, and 215 GRYLL
GRANGE.
5
Kierkegaard Revisited: Proceedings from the Conference ...
We meet one of his masks in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript in the figure
of a »cultivator of speculative eccentricities,<< »a speculative crotcheteer,<< who
lives, like in a tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann, in a garret at the top of a vast building.
Niels J. Cappelørn, Jon Stewart, 1997
6
The Durham University Journal
Chamberlain's first electoral battle bore out excellently the drawbacks facing what
The Times chose to call the 'Crotcheteer' Radicals. H. J. Wilson (Chamberlain's
Sheffield sponsor) was a 'Crotcheteer' par excellence/ Head of the Sheffield ...
7
The Portable Kierkegaard
Thus God becomes the most terrible of deceivers, because the Reason has
deceived itself. The Reason has brought God as near as possible, and yet he is
as far away as ever. Now perhaps someone will say: “You are certainly a
crotcheteer, ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Simon Yee, Eduard Geismar, 2009
8
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
... the old,witha very strong distaste forcrowds and general society, and
undoubtedlysomewhat ofwhat the French calla maniaque, that is to say, aslightly
hypochondriac crotcheteer. These characteristics, which make him interesting as
a man, ...
I drew an image of the foolish crotcheteer, who, rather than acknowledge that his
is a crotchet, would quarrel with the whole world, — call friend and neighbour,
knave and fool, — and at last dashes his brains out to demonstrate his coolness ...
William Harrison Ainsworth, 1843
10
Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory ...
We encounter one of these masks in the figure of a "private thinker, a speculative
crotcheteer," who, as in a tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann, lives in "a garret at the top of
a vast building, in his litde refuge," and is seized by "a dim suspicion that there ...
