10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVILSHIP»
Discover the use of
devilship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
devilship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Transactions of the Philological Society
addresses him throughout as 'Your Devilship'. Is such a word as 'Devilship' to be
admitted? Consider its claims a little, and see what there is against them,
remembering always that in such a scheme as ours, every word is prima facie to
be ...
Philological Society (London), 1860
A DEVLISH CHARMER Travelinmg in disguise through his properties, Shane Howard charms the lasses with a devil-may-care gleam in his eyes.
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English ...
The Society members politely disagreed, and voted that such words should
indeed be placed in the book (devilship is there, with a quotation, and not a
humorous one, from 1644), and that only laboured and unused puns like hepistle
and ...
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Castle Harcourt; or, The days of king Richard the third
mayhap his devilship may perchance find his match this time." Talking in such a
strain, they were conducted by the reve through the maze of passages, staircases
, and lobbies, till they arrived at the door of an octangular apartment, formed in ...
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From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in ...
... 'Vocabulary Parodies', like devilship in Nashe's 'Your Devilship' used as an
invocation to Satan, which he believed to have been never 'intended even by its
author for general circulation or adoption'; second, verbs and participial
adjectives ...
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The Works: Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse : In Four ...
May it pleasebyour noble Devilship to hear me,- before you give judgment upon-
us ; and I dogftdouljt fiirioufiy, but I shall-offer such Reasons of our Beha;vi'our in
that Matter, as shall sufiiciently move thatzlgnominy' your Devilship was p1eas'd ...
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose ...
An't please your thrice puislant devilship, noble seignior, I was coming to that
point : therefore, to be brief (for I hate prolixity) I am, Sir, an Italian by nation, and
a nobleman by quality. My own vanity, and ill chance, gave me a pretty wise, and
my ...
Thomas Brown, James Drake, Aristaenetus, 1760
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The Works of John Dryden,: Plays - The Tempest, Tyrannick ...
Bless his Devilship, as I may say. Wildblood sneezes again. Ser. to Don Alonzo.
This is a mans voice, do not suffer your 360 self to be deceiv'd so grosly, Sir. 332
him,} Q2-3, F, D; ~A Q1. 345 Alon.] F, D; Alon. Q1-3. 347 Bell. Mask.] F, D; Bell.
John Dryden, Maximillian E. Nozak, George R. Guffey, 1970
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The Works: Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse. With His ...
An't please your thrice puiflhnt devilship, noble signor, I was coming to that point :
Therefore, to be brief, (for I hate prolixity) I am, Sir, an-Ikalian by nation, and a
noble-man by quality. My own vanity, and ill chance, give me a pretty wife, and
my ...
Thomas Brown, James Drake, 1730
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Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED
On November 8, 1860, Herbert Coleridge read the paper, “On the Exclusion of
Certain Words from A Dictionary,” before the Society in which he argued that a
mock word such as devilship should not be accepted, as “it never was intended
even ...
