10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HACKNEYISM»
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hackneyism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Marian Rooke; or, The quest for fortune
... costumes, the bits of bright colour thrown out here and there by the dancing
flames, and the intense solitude of the scene far around it, the group would have
appeared to a spectator, to use the hackneyism, well worthy a painter's pencil.
2
The wild-fowler: a treatise on ancient and modern ...
... as concise a form as possible, with a view of presenting our readers with the
winnowed grain, apart from superfluous matter which might wear the aspect of
hackneyism. The drainage of fen-lands, though seriously detrimental to the ...
Henry Coleman Folkard, 1864
3
Letters to a Friend on the State of Ireland, the Roman ...
... Church of Rome, or the_purposes of the enemies of the Church of England, or
the purposes of established Jacobinism, or those of Opposition hackneyism;
while, upon the other, we have no more than a divided crowd, honest in their 997.
There is a some- thing so irresistibly soothing and monotonous in the flow of the
versification, with such a delightful unawakening hackneyism of incident and
character throughout, that even the irritation of nettle- rash, or the acute agonies
of ...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1816
5
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
There is a some- thins so irresistibly soothing and monotonous in the flow of the
versification, with such a delightful unaxuakening hackneyism of incident and
character throughout, that even the irritation of nettle- rash, or the acute agonies
of ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1816
6
U.S. News & World Report
Call this Hackneyism. In the spring of 1993, the modern gold standard for
tolerance of theft-censorship on campus was set by Sheldon Hackney, then
president of the University of Pennsylvania. Charging "institutional racism," 60
black students ...
OED gives five later instances with Poe's meaning. hackney ism, 12.117, review,
1845: Their (playwrights') hackneyism is no longer to be endured. Not in OED.
heiress-ship (by analogy with heir-ship), 9.186, review, 1836: without consulting ...
Burton Ralph Pollin, 1980
8
Tailor blood and other notes and comments
Hackneyism is hackneyism, whether it is the work of saint or sinner, and the effect
of it is to put to sleep every particle of truth that it touches. It should be assumed
that a college student knows in .[ 32 ]. THE COLBY ESSAYS BACCALAUREATE
...
Frank Moore Colby, Clarence Day, 1926
9
My happy half-century: the autobiography of an American woman
If our faith could but be separated from cant and hackneyism it would touch the
world more nearly. "November 16th. — Professor Fuller laid down the law to the
lawless young men in a way that did my heart good. In the boarding-hall there is
...
Frances Elizabeth Willard, Frances E. Cook, 1894
10
Khartoum campaign, 1898: or the re-conquest of the Soudan
A hackneyism lacks the picturesqueness of originality, but is as useful in its way
as a public road to a desired destination. The quotation which I am at the moment
anxious to make use of is, " The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind ...
