10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERBOLIST»
Discover the use of
hyperbolist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hyperbolist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It frequently places the Hyperbolist in a position of distrustful scrutiny and strong
doubt, on the part of those with whom he converses. His authentication of a
rumour reacts as its contradiction. He himself robs it of a large, amount of
evidence, ...
Robert Shelton Bate,
1878
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British galleries of art
A pleasant hyperbolist, — (pleasant as Prim-rose- Hill himself— itself, I mean) —
whose forte or foible, whichever it deserves to be called, consists in heightening
the merits and exaggerating the possessions of his friends, — is in the habit of ...
Peter George Patmore,
1824
3
Comic sensibility in the plays of Christopher Marlowe
Such a comparison makes Edward an hyperbolist, and the hyperbolist is often
the pathological liar. George Puttenham, writing in 1589, recognized a major
function of the overreaching image when he re-named hyperbole 'the lying figure'
, and ...
Emmanuel B. Asibong,
1979
4
Random House Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
... exclusionist, expansionist, expressionist, extortionist, Federalist, geologist,
geometrist, horologist, hygienist, hyperbolist, idealist, illusionist, impressionist,
legitimist, liberalist, literalist, lycanthropist, manicurist, meliorist, metallurgist,
militarist, ...
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Notes on English divines, ed. by D. Coleridge
... will he condescend to give us such a comment on the assertion, that had we
but a grain of mustard seed of it, we might control all material nature, without
making Christ himself the most extravagant hyperbolist that ever misused
language ?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge,
1853
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English and Chinese pronouncing dictionary
|fllll$l Dfj; hyperbolic spiral, Sffi{g|| mm\B. Hyperboliform,(hi-per-bol/.e.form)a.
Hyperbolism, (hi-per'-bol-izm) n. The use of hyperbole, /fligXIS- Hyperbolist, (hi-
per'-bo-list) n. One who uses hyperboles, Jtl Sf^l ^"^f. Hyperbolize,(hi-per'-bol-ize)
t.
Shang wu yin shu kuan,
1903
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Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental ...
Not to mention Elephant, or Whales,some ' of which an Hyperbolist would not
scruple to call moving' Mountains and Floting Illands; and to paste by those
stupendous Hils, and those Seas, where the Light looses it felte, as Objects
which their ...
Robert Boyle, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli,
1664
On what then, did the hyperbolist base the fitness of his epithet ? Did he think that
the defendant was a caricaturist of the Aristophanes pattern and therefore entitled
to it? If this were his opinion he has given us an apt illustration of the truth of ...
whom he believed a critic I And since in the mood for thus reckoning people up,
he believed the gist of others to be thus expressed: to the right a hyperbolist, it
was defined by his observations ; to the left a physiognomist, that, too, was
certain ...
10
The Western Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal
Not so with your slow prosing hyperbolist, who with a steady eye doles out his
cold extravagance, and dull excess—who dresses out his progeny in the decent
garb of propriety, and introduces them to you with formal gravity. You can come to
...