10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENTILITIES»
Discover the use of
gentilities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gentilities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Tatler: A Daily Journal of Literature and the Stage
When he saw, in contradiction to his prophecies, that the reform was to move in a
wider sphere, and that he and his gentilities were not necessary to it, he was
offended ; turned right round to the opposite side, and wrote a book which
George ...
2
The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
seven of them—in resentment of an unparalleled outrage on the refinements and
gentilities of society; then as they all crowded with exclamations of distress round
Henrietta, poor thing ! I caughtthe indignant stare of my sire, looking like that ...
There are other proprieties and gentilities. Now on this extraordinary occasion it
seems to me that these other proprieties and gentilities are more imperious than
the demands of the code. You, Beaumont, have had a daughter saved from death
...
4
Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of ...
Burke began with being a reformer, and remained one as long as he drew
attention to himself by it, and could command the respect of the " gentilities "
among which he moved. When he saw, in contradiction to his prophecies, that
the reform ...
Capital, with its concomitants, gives tone to metropolitan respectability, and
makes abject sentiments appear in the daily talk of fops and the gentilities of
either sex. The smaller fops and the gentilities next lower down take up the tone
and ...
6
Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
There are other proprieties and gentilities. Now on this extraordinary occasion it
seems to me that these other proprieties and gentilities are more imperious than
the demands of the code. You, Beaumont, have had a daughter saved from death
...
7
Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
20 Gentilities: a revealing use of the word, meaning small objects fit for people of
refined taste and gentle blood. But the objects in Ludovico's list above were
collected together with pictures, sculptures, and well- 2 37 The Princely Courts.
8
The New Monthly Magazine
seven of them — in resentment of an unparalleled outrage on the refinements
and gentilities of society ; then as they all crowded with exclamations of distress
round Henrietta, poor thing! I caught the indignant stare of my sire, looking like
that ...
9
Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in ...
Middling sorts improvised their own gentilities in urban centers on both sides of
the Atlantic in the early to mid-eighteenth century, concurrent with elite forms and
roughly a century earlier than usually assumed (Bushman, 1993). Gentility, as a ...
10
Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General ...
The family so attached to the gentilities were getting'prosperous— getting on, as
it is called; and we quite clapped our hands joyfully, as one morning, we saw the
little ones at the first-floor window, trying to look down, and evidently thinking ...
William Harrison Ainsworth,
1844
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GENTILITIES»
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gentilities is used in the context of the following news items.
News startup El Español to compete with traditional Spanish media
... up the paper “through years of blistering scoops and passionate invective—and prickly contempt for the gentilities of fairness and balance.”. «Columbia Journalism Review, May 15»
All hail Pedro J Ramírez, Spain's crown prince of muckraking
... blistering scoops and passionate invective – and prickly contempt for the gentilities of fairness and balance. But (rather like Kevin Pietersen's ... «The Guardian, Feb 14»
Europe: Socialism and the European left -- an interview with Murray …
Gentilities to protect Portugal in the event of an exit from euro cannot be expected. There is no hope that the German government authorises a ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Dec 13»
Reviews of this week's films: 'The Descendants', 'Like Crazy', 'The …
... long-haired, large-girthed, wild-mannered, an apoplectic man-walrus erupting from the movie's gentilities, holds off “closure” for a while. «Financial Times, Jan 12»
Ian R. MacLeod: Not Quite Rock 'n' Roll
To a degree, it's about slavery, and it's also about trade and industrialization and the keeping of the old ways and the old gentilities as opposed to modern ... «Locus Online, Nov 03»