10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPASMODIST»
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line ' Ben Jonson eulogized, the grand spasmodist whose ' excess of strength '
was his ruin, whose proud, surging bombast had a real luridncss of insanity
about it which kept it from being the. mere turgid rant that Dryden wrote in after
days, ...
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The North British Review
delight in remote and involved thinking, abrupt and jerking mental movements,
and "pernickilieness" of expression, working, in the higher regions of genius, can
constitute a spasmodist. And but for certain spasmodic peculiarities which seem ...
For a while no one of the writers could air himself in public in a volume of verse,
however staid and hum-drum, without the cry of " spasmodist " being raised, here,
there, and everywhere, so loudly that he was glad to retreat again into his shell.
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The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department ...
... of Mrs. Radcliffe ; try opium, with Coleridge and De Quincey ; marry a negress
and commit murder, as did Aytoun's Spasmodist ; do what you will, your style will
be your own and Nobody else's — that is, provided you yourself are Anybody.
James E. Heath, Thomas W. White, Edgar Allan Poe, 1859
She is no spasmodist. She shuns similes, and does not strain after startling
originalities of expression. Lord Albert, one of the principal persons in Normiton,
shares the same fate as Romney Leigh. His castle is acoi- dently burned to the
ground ...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine
For a while no one of the writers could air himself in public in a volume of verse,
however staid and hum-drum, without theory of ' spasmodist' being raised, here,
there, and everywhere, so loudly that he was glad to retreat again into his shell.
188 Poetry-—The Spasmodist . . . 483 Wild \Vl1ite Mnn, . . . . 292 Projectile
Weapons of War, . . 623 Waverley Novels, . _ . . . 563 Public Speakin , . . . . . 643
Woman's Influence on Knowledge, . 883 Poe, Edgar an, . . . . 803 Winter Garden,
My, .
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1858
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The Southern review / Baltimore, Md
line ' Ben Jonson eulogized, the grand spasmodist whose ' excess of strength '
was his ruin, whose proud, surging bombast had a real luridness of insanity
about it which kept it from being the mere turgid rant that Dryden wrote in after
days, ...
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Rousseau and Romanticism
... intensity whether of pleasure or pain must in the nature of the case be brief —
mere spasms or paroxysms; and one might apply to the whole school the term
paroxyst and spasmodist assumed by certain minor groups during the past
century.
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The Southern literary messenger
... of Mrs. Radcliffe ; try opium, with Coleridge and De Quincey ; marry a negress
and commit murder, as did Aytoun's Spasmodist ; do what you will, your style will
be your own and Nobody else's —that is, provided you yourself are Anybody.
