10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIANTRY»
Discover the use of
giantry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
giantry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including ...
The flimsy giantry of Ossian has introduced mountainous horrors. The exhibitions
at Somerset-house are crowded with Brobdignag ghosts. Read and explain to
her a charming poetic familiarity called the Blue-stocking Club. If she has not your
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Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron), 1840
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Correspondence with George Montagu (etc.) New Ed. with ...
The flimsy giantry of Ossian has introduced mountainous horrors. The exhibitions
at Somersethouse are crowded with Brobdignag ghosts. Read and explain to her
a charming poetic familiarity called the Blue-Stocking Club. If she has not your ...
Earl of Orford Walpole (Horace), 1837
CONTINUED spectacle, two or more are simply overwhelming, and here there is
a mob of them. What if Jack had spied all this at the top of the beanstalk? — a
regular plague of giantry, the result perhaps of some hypertrophic mutation which
...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
... wickedness—and of the glorious fallen creatures who had abjured their
hierarchal honours to embrace the daughters of clay and sisters to the worm—
infinite disdain saluted him from all, and immeasurable scorn curled the lips of
the giantry.
earl of Orford Walpole (Horace). ' superior,Iis too learned for her limited reading)
would be very proper. In truth, I think the cast of the age (I mean in its
compositions) is too sombre. The flimsy giantry of Ossian has introduced
mountainous ...
earl of Orford Walpole (Horace), 1820
And, had they triumphed, Earth had once again, To Violence subdued, and
impious Pride, Verged to such a state of wickedness, as when . The Giantry of old
their God defied ; And Heaven, impatient of a world like this, Opened its
floodgates, ...
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The poetical works, collected by himself
And had they triumph'd, Earth had once again, To Violence subdued, and
impious Pride, Verged to such state of wickedness, as when The Giantry of old
their God defied, And Heaven, impatient of a world like this, Open'd its flood-
gates, and ...
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Phreno-mnemotechnic Dictionary: Being a Philosophical ...
62 10 — Giantize,giantess, jaundice, chintz. * 6211 — Jointed, chanted. * 62 14
— Geniture, genitor, janitor, gender, gentry, giantry, jointure, jointer, joint-heir,
joinder, chandry, chanter. * 6215 — Genital, genteel, gen- til, Gentile, jointly,
jantile.
Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, 1844
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Recent Exemplifications of False Philology
Geometer, how derived, 60. Geometrize, how derived, 56. Get, for hecome, 81, f.
Giantry, for giants, 85. Gifts of prophecy, 17. Girlery, for girls, 85. Give out, for fail,
107. Glad, v. a., 55. Glass, how pronounced, 60. Gluttonize, 54. Gormandize, 54.
Intellectual giantry offers the fairest quarry when we would fly our falcons at
peccadilloes. The man is perched, like a St. Simon Stock, on the pillar of his
genius ; and at its base the sacred geese with hiss and cackle keep their watch
and ward.
