10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNCEDOM»
Discover the use of
duncedom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
duncedom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review
But, oh! art not thou a blockheaf in thine own right 7 Is not that little possession of
thine, there, in Duncedom, a royalty, wherein no ' Nineteenth Century,'—no
collective Blockheadry of the age, has a right to come in and play Lord
Paramount, ...
2
The Dublin University Magazine
Is not that little POSStSSlOD of thine, there, in Duncedom, a royalty, wherein no '
Nineteenth Century,'— no collective Bloekneadry of the age, has a right to come
in and play Lord Paramount, and stamp its image and superscription upon all ...
3
Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ
Tieck and the Schlegels, with some less active associates, among whom are now
mentioned Wackenroder and Novalis, were at this time engaged in their far-
famed campaign against Duncedom, or what called itself the ' Old School ' of ...
4
Bentley's Quarterly Review
... was Pope's predominance in the realm of literature that when he spoke most
men said it was the voice of an oracle—by a man whom he originally seated on
the throne of Duncedom, though he afterwards caused Cibber to reign in his
stead.
5
The United States Democratic Review
... nay, annihilate us none of your annihilations ; you may be from heaven, and
you may be from Tophet ; but your speed argues your course to be downwards
through Duncedom to Nowhere, or to a worse place; so, please take yourself
along, ...
6
The Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany Volume III.
Pope also had his Mrs. Martha Blount ; and, in the midst of that warfare with
united Duncedom, his daily tale of Egyptian bricks to bake. Let us pity the lot of
genius, in this sublunary sphere ! Every one knows the earthly termination of
Madame ...
7
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes
It may be assigned to a niche.6 In the nineteenth century, for example, -dom,
came to be used largely with pejorative meaning, cf. duncedom, gangdom, a
meaning which persists even when the N itself does not have negative semantics
...
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale, 2013
Tieck and the Schle- gels, with some less active associates, among whom are
now mentioned Wackenroder and Novalis, were at this time engaged In their far-
famed campaign against Duncedom, or what called itself the ' Old School' of ...
9
Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal and ...
... into voluntary duncedom. The thing, we repeat is a flat, a bald and a flagrant
impossibility. You might as well tell us that a young eagle, instead of taking to the
sky as soon as its pinions were grown, has, though neither caged nor clipped, ...
10
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Like Hyder Ali, he now – to travesty Burke – “in the recesses of a mind capacious
of such things, determined to leave all Duncedom an everlasting monument of
vengeance, and became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his ...
