10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUSTIANIST»
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The imperial encyclopaedic dictionary: a new and exhaustive ...
Let fustian poets with their stuff be gone." Dryden: Persius, aat. v. □fus tl an-lst, .«
. [Eng. fustian; -ist.] One who makes use of pompous or oombastic language. "
Amobius or any modern fustianist."— Milton: Apology forSwtectymnuus. fus tic, *.
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American encyclopedic dictionary
"Let fustian poete with their stuff be gone." Dryden: J'ersius, aat. v. •fus -tl-Stfl-Ist, *
- [Eng. fustian; -ist.] One who makes use of pompous or bombastic language. "
Amobius or any modern fustianist,"— Milton,- Apology fbr Smectymnuus. fus - tic,
#.
Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage,
1897
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The American encyclopædic dictionary
bel, del. THE seventh letter and fifth gab-lever, gab-lifter, «. A device. fustianist
1953 futurition 2. Fig.: A high swelling kind of writing; bom- 1st ; an inflated or
pompous style. But if she frown, why fare? With all her medley trump '* But if she
frown ...
S. J. Herrtage, John A. Williams, Robert Hunter,
1897
4
The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, ...
... preferring the gay rankness of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern fustianist,
before the native Latinisms of Cicero. In the Greek tongue most of them
unlettered, or " unentered to any sound proficiency in those Attic masters of moral
wisdom ...
John Milton, James Augustus St. John,
1875
5
The works of John Milton: in verse and prose, printed from ...
blown together by the foure winds, and in their choice preferring the gay
ranknesse of Apuleius, Ar- nobius, or any moderne fustianist, before the native
Latinisms of Cicero. In the Greek tongue most of them unletter'd, or unenter'd to
any sound ...
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Milton. Areopagitica, ed. with intr. and notes by J.W. Hales
In the Apology for Smectymnuus he speaks of ' Apuleius, Ar- nobius, or any
modern fustianist.' Fustian denotes originally a sort of coarse cloth ; then stuffing,
padding ; in literature it denotes words without force, mere verbiage. Cp. bombast
.
John Milton, John Wesley Hales,
1874
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The Oratorical Dictionary
A kind of cloth ; a pompous, ridiculous style of writing. s. fustianist. FURTIGA'TION
. s. An ancient custom among the Romans of punishing with a cudgel.
FUSTINESS. s. A fusty state or quality, an ill smell from mould ; mouldiness. FU'
TILE. adj.
John Newland Maffitt,
1835
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Milton and Republicanism
Their Latin was 'barbarous' and their literary taste - 'preferring the gay ranknesse
of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any moderne fustianist, before the native Latinisms of
Cicero' - even worse. Most failed to grasp the rudiments of Greek and therefore ...
David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner,
1998
9
A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton
... declaiming in rugged and miscellaneous gear blown together by the four winds
, and in their choice preferring the gay rankness of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any
modern fustianist, before the native Latinisms of Cicero ; in the Greek tongue
most ...
John Milton, Francis Jenks,
1826
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A complete collection of the historical, political, and ...
... miscellaneous gear blown together by the four winds, and in their choice
preferring the gay rankness of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Fustianist,
before the native Latinifms of Cicero. In the Creek tongue most of them unletter'd,
...