10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROLICSOMENESS»
Discover the use of
frolicsomeness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
frolicsomeness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon
Bruster describes the term as “a variant of folksy exclamation...denoting
frolicsomeness, gaiety, surprise, wonder, etc.” and notes that Shakespeare tried
to make Caliban's “lusty assertion...suspect in lending Caliban the 'high-day'
song.
2
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
See Frolicsomeness. Frolicsome, frol'ik-surn, a. Full of gaiety and mirth ; given to
pranks. Frolicsomely, frol'ik-sum-le, ad. With wild gaiety. Frolicsomeness, frol'ik-
snjn-nes, a. Gaiety; wild pranks. Frolovia, fro-lo've-a, ». (in honour of Frolow, ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1848
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
the occupation of it in most instances is vicious and corrupting in the extreme. It
would not be so bad, hOWever, if they gave way merely to the wild mischievous
frolicsomeness and libertinism of advanced boyhood, such as sprout out of our ...
4
The Bengali Drama: Its Origin and Development
... how to keep a lyrical and ryhthmical correspondence between the speakers,
their words and their surroundings and how to impart to everything a lofty
idealism, a haunting sense of beauty and the delicate frolicsomeness of the open
-air.
5
The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches
In another passage, Meinecke recollects that "every Heidelberg student who had
once seen him tumbling around with youthful frolicsomeness in the waters of the
Neckar" knew the peal of his "wonderful laugh" (Consciousness and Society, p.
6
Johnson's Quarrel with Swift: Johnson's Part in the Swiftian ...
It belongs no less than the arrogance and puerile susceptibility to cheap flattery,
no less than the licentiousness and the petulant frolicsomeness, to the picture of
arrested development Johnson has drawn. (p. 19) This comes too close to ...
7
The student's manual: designed
The hares of the sensitive Cowper were his evening companions ; and he
informs us that their cheerfulness and frolicsomeness beguiled his hours of
sadness. The following are the rules, much abridged, which the judicious Mason
gives to the ...
... there was a peculiarly bewitching mixture of slyness and carelessness, of
artificiality and simplicity, of composure and frolicsomeness; about everything she
did or said, about every ac- tion of hers, there clung a delicate, fine charm, in
which ...
9
Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities
A noble boy, and docile" — she murmured — " he has all the frolicsomeness of
youth, with little of its giddiness. And he does not grow vain-glorious in
sophomorean wisdom. I thank heaven I sent him not to college. A noble boy, and
docile.
10
Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft
And so, in the comic piece he did write, the serious subject is duly noted in the
second paragraph, and the rest is given over to a frolicsomeness that doesn't
quite work. Jungian wheeze: Little Orphan Charlie, upper-class Cinderella,
thought he ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROLICSOMENESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
frolicsomeness is used in the context of the following news items.
Whatever Happened To ... Children's Pavilion?
... in the quietness of the place disturbed, if disturbed at all, by the bubbling fun and romping frolicsomeness of the former," McQuaid continued. «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 14»
Pope Francis and the Naked Christ
... at times forsakes the austerity and poise of his earlier arguments for a tone that veers into a smug frolicsomeness bordering on lack of taste. «New Yorker, Dec 13»
Some not-so-serious thoughts on reading and writing
These thoughts, not so serious, of course, were intended as jokes and were the result of plain frolicsomeness. Readers are requested not to ... «DAWN.com, Jan 13»
So Much Fabulousness Along the Way
So, I think there was an attitude of just frolicsomeness. They didn't feel as if they had to get anything done. CC: Do you think that's something ... «Cannabis Culture, Aug 11»
'Dear Editor': A brief social history of the Guyanese newspaper letter …
Phrases like “exuberant frolicsomeness,” “frowsiest of the fraternity” and “phantasmal penumbra” were standard for that time. It was the ... «Stabroek News, Aug 10»
'Slam Dunks and No-Brainers': Whassup? Don't Ask
Certainly she didn't absorb Mackay's sense of how "the favorite slang phrase . . . throws a dash of fun and frolicsomeness over the existence of ... «New York Times, Oct 05»
