10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUFFIANISH»
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ruffianish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Pierces Supererogation Or, A New Praise of the Old Asse: A ...
They that affect such ruffianish braveryes, and devide their roisterdoistring jestes
into cuttes, slashes and soines, may bestow the reading ; for any other, of
whatsoever qualitie, or calling, it will do them as much good as dirt in their
shooes ...
Gabriel Harvey, John Payne Collier,
1593
2
Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and ...
He did not join in the common execrations of men, or approve their punitive
severities ; he saw something excellent in the vilest, he would win by love the
most ruffianish, and the profligate he bade ' Go, and sin no more.' When he was
reviled ...
3
Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
... not join in the common execrations of men, or approve their punitive severities;
he saw something excellent in the vilest, he would win by love the most ruffianish,
and the profligate he bade 'Go, and sin no more.' When he was reviled he ...
Sylvester Judd, Gavin Roger Jones,
2009
4
Damn! a Book of Calumny
For the ruffianish pages of Jack London, the pungent, hospitable smell of a first-
class bar-room—that indescribable mingling of Maryland rye, cigar smoke, stale
malt liquor, radishes, potato salad and blutwurst. For the Dartmoor sagas of the ...
5
Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; ...
They that affect such ruffianish braveries, and divide their roister-doistering jests
into cuts, slashes, and foins, may bestow the reading ; for any other of
whatsoever quality or calling, it will do them as much good as dirt in their shoes,
or draff in ...
Sir Egerton Brydges,
1815
6
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor
The very boxes themselves are no sanctuary from ruffianish incivility ; while the
ears are stunned, and the cheek of Decency crimsoned with the profaneness,
obscenity, and senseless brawl of barbarians in the gallerv, the sight is
intercepted, ...
7
Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet
The fact that he “begs” in essence for a drink further reveals his ruffianish nature
seeing that drunkenness is symptomatic of the cowardly braggart who drowns his
quarrels in wine.” The way in which the valenton-pordiosero asks for his ...
Adrienne Laskier Martín,
1991
8
The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial ...
And please your Worship," began the complaining coachman — a stout, twelve
stone, woolly- headed, large-lipped, young, ruffianish sort of a subject — " and
please your Worship, I was engaged to take a party home from the Haymarket ...
George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank,
1825
I always see him wearing some cobbled-together variation on a faux-late-
eighteenth century French style, seemingly more derived from the period of the
Directory than from the ruffianish sans-culottes one associates with the Terror, but
then I ...
10
Six by Mencken and one by Nietzsche
For the ruffianish pages of Jack London, the pungent,
hospitablesmellofafirstclass barroom—that indescribable mingling of Maryland
rye, cigar smoke, stale malt liquor, radishes, potato salad and blutwurst. For the
Dartmoor sagasof the ...
H. L. Mencken, Frederick Nietzsche,
2014