10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOWNRIGHTNESS»
Discover the use of
downrightness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
downrightness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Dublin University Magazine
The man who has heart and downrightness cannot fail to be eloquent. He who
has heart and downrightness, and an harmonious car, if he but deal sincerely
with himself, will sing sweetly and truly the songs that come home to the human ...
2
The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review
The man who has heart and downrightness cannot fail to be eloquent. He who
has heart and downrightness, and an harmonious car, if be but deal sincerely
with himself, will sing sweetly and truly the songs that come home to the human ...
3
Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials ...
To me he, with his British downrightness, his love of space, his freedom from all
mannerisms and tricks of style, seemed Ravel's very antithesis,32 Most of
Vaughan Williams later biographers, most notably Percy Young, Hubert Foss,
and Frank ...
4
Notes from a Diary, 1892-1895
1892] DOWNRIGHTNESS AND UPRIGHTNESS 117 Vere's : " Many people
mistake downrightness for uprightness." This morning I went up after breakfast to
see Mr. and Mrs. Lyttelton Gell, with whom I found Mr. and Mrs. Portal, the latter of
...
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, 1904
It is a shallow criticism to say that intimacy cannot exist without plain, downright
speaking. It can and does. Downrightness is, strictly, the vehicle of
communication between acquaintances or mere strangers. It is the medium of the
marketplace ...
Hector William Dinning, 1939
This quality of downrightness is, of course, a defect in an art in which suggestion
is so powerful an instrument. Downrightness may have been a virtue (though not
always) in the age of oral tradition — in the days of the singing of Norse Sagas ...
J.C. Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, 1936
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
Add to this proud blindness the better quality of great downrightness in speaking
the truth, and the love of fair play, on all occasions, and, moreover, the peculiarity
which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out until he ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, 1842
8
The North American Review
Nay, was not Andreas in very deed a man of order, courage, downrightness (
Geradlzeit); that understood Buesching's Geography, had been in the victory of
Rossbach, and left for dead in the camisade of Hochkirch l The good Gretchen,
for all ...
9
The Gentleman's Magazine
... undeniable evidence of an honest, just, English nature, that reminded me, from
its immediate decision between the right and wrong of a subject, and the
downrightness of the feeling that governed it, of the good King, her grandfather.
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The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
... of novels rather daring in tone 8c expression, for [a] characteristic of this
uncommon family, was its downrightness of speech which took its origin in a very
fine scorn of what was hypocritical.”20 Frank was the quietest of the boys when
young.
