10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRIBBLEMENT»
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scribblement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scribblement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, ...
This short scribblement I shall send by special messenger to Newport, for the
failure of Rogers the great having put an end to all banking business at Olney, we
have no longer the convenience of a daily post. What is become of the General ?
William Cowper, Robert Southey, 1854
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Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American ...
A Scribblement (1848), and Marie de Bemiere: A Tale of the Crescent City (1855)
. Then there are things like A. Oakey Hall's The Manhattan in New Orleans: Or,
Phases of 'Crescent City' Life (1851), which is by a New Yorker who briefly ...
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Pronunc Standard Eng America V
Perhaps the reference is to the Inquisition and its thumbscrews. SGREWSMAN—
Picker of locks. Defined in Vaux's Flash Dictionary (1812). SCRIBBLEMENT—
Writing. “I am tired of this endless scribblement.”—-Cowper, Letter to Unwin, Oct.
20 ...
... to work, that he at one time of his life went through the most wearisome and
laborious of all the hard tasks to which flesh is heir—the crowning drudgery of all
human toils—that of earning his bread by scribblement and versemongery'!
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1836
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The Works: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life : in ...
The end of all scribblement is to amuse, and he certainly succeeds there. I long to
read his new romance. “ And how does ' Sir Edgar ?' and your friend Bland'! I
suppose you are involved in some literary squabble. The only way l96 NOTICES
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George Gordon Byron Byron, Thomas Moore, 1836
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The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, ...
I am tired of this endless scribblement. Adieu! Yours, W. C. TO THE REV. JOHN
NEWTON.* Olney, Oct. 22, 1784. My dear Friend—I am now reading a book
which you have never read, and will probably never readKnox's Essays. Perhaps
I ...
William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey, 1835
The end of all scribblement is to amuse and he certainly succeeds there. I long to
read his new romance.2 The Waverley novels appealed to Byron from the first
and held his interest and admiration for life. Indeed he had no very high opinion
of ...
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Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8
John Kaye George Bruce Malleson. more portentous than the scribblement of the
Dervesh Bazi, or " royal game of goose." With equal confidence on the other
hand, the military authorities protested that the new regulations had nothing to do
...
John Kaye, George Bruce Malleson, 2010
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Elegant Epistles: being a copious collection of familiar and ...
Yet this I must do, or 1 must make my packets miore costly than worshipful, by
doubling the; postage upon you, which I should hold to be unreasonable. See
then the truii reason why I did not send you that same scribblement till you
desired it.
I see the ' Lady of the Lake' advertised. Of course it is in his old ballad style, and
pretty. After all, Scott is the best of them. The end of all scribblement is to amuse,
and he certainly succeeds there. I long to read his new romance. " And how does
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2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCRIBBLEMENT»
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scribblement is used in the context of the following news items.
Let's kick God off the Court: Marriage isn't the only place where the …
... their common sense to stubborn faith in a cock-and-bull collection of ancient scribblements (i.e., the Bible) — must feel triumphantly, even gleefully, vindicated. «Quincy Journal, Jul 15»
Ted Cruz, our ayatollah: Fight back now, or welcome to the 2016 …
One would be tempted to dismiss such scribblements as ridiculous, but six out of 10 Americans do believe in Satan. Christianity, that multilevered vehicle for the ... «Salon, May 15»
