QUOTES WITH «OVERCIVILISED»
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overcivilised.
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCIVILISED»
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Soon the race was of the common overcivilised type, graceful, wellmannered,
with abundant good looks, but only once in a generation reverting to the turn
displaced the family chaplain, and the house by A 1899J 605 The Far Islands.
Overcivilised ! Well now, in spite of myself I feel that I am relapsing into barbarism
since I set foot in. this island. A thousand frightful thoughts beset me and torment
me — and I longed to have some conversation with you before burying myself ...
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Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
That those “overcivilised people” were (1)mostly, if not almost exclusively,white,
and (2)were “going home” toaplace most of them hadnever been, whose
actualnative inhabitants had been removed or killed, to (3) enjoy a wild
experience that, ...
... near an approach to that sensation of mere delight in living, which the young
enjoy by right of nature, and the inhabitants of more genial countries have (now
and then) by right of climate, as it is possible for a careworn and overcivilised
race ...
Nancy says it's because we've become overcivilised, primitive Africans are black
and we're the extreme opposite. Overcivilised. It don't sound like a Maloney
though, does it? For an Australian, Thomas is white as a Pommie migrant. It
doesn't ...
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The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921: ...
"w One of the starkest condemnations of the suffocating and corrupting effect of
such "overcivilised" urban life was delivered by Eoin Mac Neill, who, having
rhapsodized over the beauties of the countryside, contrasted the sturdily
independent ...
7
Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poets and Politics
... terms in which womenwere seen, she isturning them tomoral and social
accountandarguing that women's discourse cansoften what would nowbe called
thephallocentric hardnessand imaginative deficiencies of an overcivilised culture.
... which rustled softly above his head ; the flowing stream made a refreshing little
sound; and Victor, an overcivilised man, without the smallest feeling for Nature,
was yet conscious of a touch of Arcadian sentiment, an agreeable melancholy.
James Hogg, Florence Marryat, 1883
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Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing
... According to the Baedeker Handbook, Greece was a haven for those 'wearied
of the artificial and overcivilised side of modern hotels and means of locomotion' (
Baedeker 1889, xxiii; see alsoBuzard 1993). 3 ...
James Duncan, Derek Gregory, 2002
Thus in his fourth book, which deals with the decline and fall of civilisations, he
chiefly emphasises the moral decay which makes an overcivilised people an
easy prey to robuster races far inferior in intelligence but animated and guided by
...
George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, 1894
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Mary, Mary… How does your garden keep growing?
... two unhappy, sickly, overcivilised children who achieve health and happiness through a combination of communal gardening, mystical faith, ... «OUPblog, May 11»
