10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSAICALNESS»
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prosaicalness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Southern literary messenger
His old coined words, " sphery,1' " prosaicalness," " unsuperfluousness," " one-
ness," &c, still occasionally flutter round his pen, and force themselves in, despite
his better judgment. He speaks of " Bottom and his brother mechanicals" in ...
... in setting in contrast his own rich and poetical prose, with the dulness and
prosaicalness of Dr. Graingerli Sugar Cane, with extracts from which he
sometimes regfllfls “The conclusion is evidently given in kind considerationo
those of us who ...
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Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his ...
You are never tired with readin Cowper, in spite of the occasional prosaicalness
0 his style, and ruggedness of his versification which he has in common with his
avowed model 'hurchill,) few poems are so frequently taken up, and so generally
...
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Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets
As to prosaicalness in general, it is sometimes indulged in by young writers on
the plea of its being natural ; but this is a mere confusion of triviality with propriety,
and is usually the result of indolence. Unsuperfluousness is rather a matter of ...
And the enjoyment is not less than the profit of this service. In the midst of the
heat and dust of the world, and what ma. be called the almost intolerable
prosaicalness of every-day ife, the prospect and remembrance of religious
worship cheers ...
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The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in ...
... it has been defended—among otheIs_by Abp: Seeker and Bps: Beveridgef and
Horsleyi; and has found advocates even in our " For more particulars: General
prosaicalness, while with forced and tortuous inversions; strained a plications of ...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, ...
It generally accompanies prosaicalness, and is the consequence of weak
thoughts, and of the affectation of a certain well-bred enthusiasm. The writings of
the late Mr. Hayley were remarkable for it 40 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
And the enjoyment is not less than the profit of this service. In the midst of the
heat and dust of the world, and what may be called the almost intolerable
prosaicalness of every-day life, the prospect and remembrance of religious
worship cheers ...
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, 1846
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The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review
In all cases it is surely far better to give feelings their legitimate scope than to
check and seek to extinguish them ; and no less surely these aspirations after the
beautiful, this perception of the, as if, intolerable prosaicalness of the ordinary ...
You are never tired in reading Cowper; and it is, perhaps, owing to this, that,
notwithanding the occasional prosaicalness of the style, and ruggedness of the
versification, and (what is more displeasing' to us, though we do not know that it
has ...
