10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGHWROUGHT»
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highwrought in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
highwrought and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Complete Othello: An Annotated Edition Of The ...
Cape: “projecting headland, land juttering into the sea” (Honigmann, 161) FIRST
GENTLEMAN 2 Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood; Highwrought: “agitated
sea” (Mowat, 58); flood: “(body of) water” (Honigmann, 161) 3 I cannot, 'twixtthe ...
Donald J. Richardson, 2014
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Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry Into Anthologies
... it should not be read as an unsophisticated song, and not as an instance of the
seemingly effortless elegance of courtly poetry in the late sixteenth century, but
as a "fine example of the highwrought and conventional Elizabethan Pastoralism.
3
Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning
And traced each scene, that, midst the wrecks of time, The print of Glory's parting
step retains; Nor for awhile, in highwrought dreams, forgot, Musing on years gone
by inbrightness there, The hopes,the fears,the sorrows ofhis lot, The hues his ...
Dr Mark Sandy, Professor Vincent Newey, 2013
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American Quarterly Review
... its best and noblest sources of pleasure? It is in the intellectual sublime, in the
contemplation of unrealized immensity, that it finds scope for its highwrought,
craving fancy. “ It loves,” as Addison says, “ to grasp at any thing beyond its
capacity.
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The Dublin University Magazine
... suggestions for improvements in our social condition—sometimes in the shape
of a picturesque traveller, with highwrought descriptions of our mountain scenery,
whose exaggerations have been most successfully combatted by the annexed ...
He knew himself an impostor, but yet he~ was, in some measure, the dupe, partly
of his own bewildered wisdom, partly of the fervour of an imagination exceedingly
'highwrought and enthusiastic. His own gorgeous vanity intoxicated him; and, ...
Timothy Shay Arthur, 1845
And, indeed, the peculiar tone of Madeline's mind fulfilled the indication of her
features , and was eminently thoughtful and highwrought. She had early testified
a remarkable love for study, and not only a desire for knowledge, but a
veneration ...
Edward George Bulwer Lytton, 1842
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Southern Quarterly Review
... by any display of sickly sentiment or morbid suffering, or any highwrought
picture of the terrible or the revolting. His material was never overwrought, nor
loaded with embellishment ; not once did he condescend to sacrifice truth for
effect.
Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, 1843
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The Sufferings of Royalty; Or Human Greatness a Fallacy. ...
king's sister the beautiful Cleopatra, abandoning himself to his pleasures,
passing whole days and nights feasting, and all the excesses of highwrought
luxury with the young and beautiful Queen. Having resolved to attend Cleopatra
up the ...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ...
famous hero, into the lordly hall, and there surrounded by bright-eyed maidens,
and, stimulated by the twofold flattery of sugared lips and generous wines,
pouring out his highwrought, enthusiastic, yet measured and well-modulated ...
Thomas Percy, George Gilfillan, 1858
