10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POCOCURANTIST»
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pococurantist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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And who can tell us authoritatively about the real Horace, that ripe specimen of
the genial pococurantist, whose bland worldliness, dislike of being bored, and
frank indifference to the ambitions and passions of the hour, make him such a ...
... few modern facilities for research, slender libraries, little converse with fellow
scholars, who are nevertheless steadily, quietly, building up a national, an
international reputation; while the pococurantist, with everything he needs at his
elbow, ...
3
The Training of the Twelve: Or, Passages Out of the Gospels, ...
Better Peter, bound by others, and led whither he would not, as a good shepherd
to be sacrificed for the sheep, than Simon girding on his own garment, and
walking along with the careless jaunty air of a modern pococurantist. A life on the
...
Alexander Balmain Bruce, 1871
4
Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists
... from any such charge, though he doesn't think Nietzsche worth that trouble;41
but then he doesn't even notice the contrast between his morally and
intellectually urgent response to Thatcher's Britain and the pococurantist,
Hawkesean patter ...
5
Misalliance, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First ...
Mr Trotter : it is easy for you to play the pococurantist. [Trotter, amazed, repeats
the first three syllables in his throat, making a noise like a pheasant]. You see
hundreds of plays every year. But to me, who have never seen anything of this
kind ...
George Bernard Shaw, 2008
As to his polities, we may say that our Dutchman is a pure Pococurantist Trade is
his politics. The safe arrival of the India fleet is news for him more exciting than
the crash of an odious ministry. So he looks on, clinking his guilders in his pocket
...
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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play
After all, the thing has amusing passages. Dismiss the rest as impertinence. THE
COUNT. Mr Trotter: it is easy for you to play the pococurantist. [Trotter, amazed,
repeats the first three syllables in his throat, making a noise like a pheasant].
Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw, 1994
But at this point Magnus remembered the noble Pococurante — that man of so
prodigious a genius that nothing would please him — and discovering that he
himself had been talking in Pococurantist manner grew elated to find that
Voltaire's ...
... of fifth-century Alexandria — its Judenhetze, its triangular intrigues of Christian,
Hebrew, and pagan, its Pococurantist prefects, and its beautiful girl-philosophers,
who preach Platonic mysticism which they do not understand to a crowd which ...
Mr. Trotter, it is easy for you to play the pococurantist. You see hundreds of plays
every year. But to me, who have never seen anything of this kind before, the
effect of this play is terribly disquieting. Sir, if it had been what people call an
immoral ...
