10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRIFFINISM»
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That in Calcutta she had fallen amongst wags willing to play on her griffinism, is
evident from the strain of many of her remarks ; and not least from the fact that
she was strongly impressed while here with a sense of the danger of proceeding
...
... deluded people, conversing with them as best he could, distributing his tracts
among them, often with exquisite griffinism, unwittingly offending their prejudices,
but always regarding them with the deepest feelings of commiseration and love.
So that taking the truth first, the honest imagination gains everything ; it has its
griffinism, and grace, and usefulness, all at once : but the false composer, caring
for nothing but himself and his rules, loses everything, — griffinism, grace, and all
.
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Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
So that taking the truth first, the honest imagination gains everything ; it has its
griffinism, and grace, and usefulness, all at once : but the false composer, caring
for nothing but himself and his rules, loses everything, — griffinism, grace, and all
.
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Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque
'Griffinism,. grace. and. all': the. riddle. of. the. grotesque. in. John. Ruskin's.
Modern. Painters. Lucy. Hartley. i In an evocative passage from The Stones of
Venice, John Ruskin directs his readers through 'the heavy door whose bronze
network ...
Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni, 1999
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'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and ...
... his table than in the Ganges.37 Jones's pet reminds us of how Reginald Heber,
bishop of Calcutta and husband of Amelia Shipley, Anna Maria's niece, later
earned a reputation for griffinism by feasting on the 'extremely sweet' turtles
hauled ...
Michael J. Franklin, 2011
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Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India: With a Tour ...
with all the bitterness of impatient griffinism. To my great amusement, a very
handsome girl turning her chudder from her head, turned sharply back, and
looking at me, said, " Tera booreea kuon?" where is your old woman? and
laughed in my ...
Charles James C. Davidson, 1843
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See griff, 2. griffinage; griffinism. Derivatives from griffin, 2—4: T. griffins. The
leavings from a contract feast: trade:—1893; ob. by 1933. griffish. Of or like a
newcomer to India, hence of any greenhorn: Anglo-Indian > gen: ca. 1836-1936.
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Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace
See also Lucy Hartley's impressive discussion of the philosophical issues around
the grotesque as a category, in "'Griffinism, Grace and All.'" 35. Wilson, "Monsters
and Monstrosities," 143-73. 36. Ruskin, Works, 10: 260. 37. Whewell ...
James Buzard, Joseph W. Childers, Eileen Gillooly, 2007
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
9. 'A grinning booby, who hath lost a tooth or two at top, and the same at bottom':
app. ca 1720–1850. 'Jon Bee'. 10. The derivatives griffinage, griffinism, are †:
these refer mostly to senses 1–3. griffins . The leavings from a contract feast:
trade ...
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