10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METROMANIA»
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metromania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
metromania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Perilous Enlightenment: Pre- and Post-modern Discourses : ...
The book opens with a discussion of a subject called metromania, a word
capable of various etymologies — including one dealing with poetic verse and
numerical measure - but whose correct etymology in this instance is related to the
Greek ...
George Sebastian Rousseau, 1991
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Historical & literary memoirs and anecdotes
This turn for jokes, had gone near to deprive the world of a chef-d'oeuvre, the
Metromania. Piron came to Paris, but not conceiving that he had talents for any
great undertaking, confined his ideas to framing amusements for the fairs. Here
he ...
Friedrich Melchior Grimm (Freiherr von), Denis Diderot, 1815
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Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic ...
According to OED, the first use of metromania in the sense of nymphomania
doesn't occur in an English publication until Dunglison's Medical Lexicon (1848).
All the same, used as a sub-species of erotomania (and, after 1771, ofthe freshly
...
Richard Marggraf Turley, 2012
4
Sexuality in Eighteenth-century Britain
The book opens with a discussion of a subject called metromania, a word
capable of various etymologies — including one dealing with poetic verse and
numerical measure — but whose correct etymology in this instance is related to
the ...
AS IF LIVING IN NEW YORK weren't fun and games enough, two new trivia
games — Metromania and Only in New York — are now being sold in
department and gift stores. To win at Metromania ($39.95), a player tries to be the
first to get his ...
6
The principles and practice of obstetric medicine
To an analogous head of subject have we to refer certain cases of metromania
and metromelancholia, which have been quoted as results of congested states of
the uterine system from a too sparing or suppressed menstruation. Th. Bartholin.
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Neoclassical Satire and the Romantic School 1780 - 1830
This he dubbed “metromania”, a craze and mass epidemic of the maniacal rabble
for writing poetry in metres:69 And may not I – now this pernicious pest, This
metromania, creeps thro' every breast; Now fools and children void their brains
by ...
8
Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
After Galen. In Rufus, ed. Daremberg, pp. 119ff 22 2, XI, 32. 23 Etymologiae IV, 7.
24 Symptoms ofAcute Diseases II, 13. 25 On Women's Diseases (CUF) III, 3. 26
Acute Diseases III, XVIII, 178. 27 23, p. 75. 28 Page 57. 29 2, XI, 32. Metromania
...
Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick, 2002
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Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the ...
There is a roundup of stock characters. In The Case ofthe GildedFly most of these
are members of a repertory company en route from London to Oxford where they
are to rehearse a play, Metromania. Thumbnail sketches establish their types.
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Neuman & Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English ...
Metromania, tf. Metromania, rhyming-madness. Metropoli, tf. 1. Metropolis, the
chief or principal city of a country. 2. Archiepiscopal church. Metropolitino, tm.
Metropolitan, metropolite, archbishop. Metropolitano, na, «. Metropolitan. M£.ya,
if.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METROMANIA»
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Metromania all the way! | Chennai NYOOOZ
At every given opportunity, people took selfies in the stations and on trains. At half past 12, amid the loud cheers of the crowd on the platform, ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
Airtel launches 4G trials in Chennai
Metromania all the way! Woman power to the fore at inaugural · Up, close and personal · A warm welcome from residents · Congress, PMK ... «The Hindu, May 15»
