10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPLEENFULLY»
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spleenfully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spleenfully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Noble Traytour: A Chronicle
219 Hereupon, one spleenfully rhymeth — " All this was done to captivate the eye
Of yon fair lady that was sanding bye!" " I could not wish the Earl a fall lower than
the earth might stead him : but he that lieth on that truckle-bed can lie no lower, ...
Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.), 1857
2
Old Times: a novel. ... With illustrations by the author
At that very moment the critic was wagging his hand spleenfully over the
unfortunate shoulder— “ very faulty !” said Mr. Spanner and no more—then he
swept his finger down the figures with protruded lip and lifted brow. “ It's
creditable, sir, for ...
William Gorman WILLS, 1857
3
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Men have too spleenfully against him railed ; Or graced him with too swelling
eulogy. I will not follow their extremity :For there was mingled much of ill and
good In Cromwell's life, if rightly understood. 7 He had an even spirit, a
composed strain, ...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1833
4
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India ...
Had I been captiously or spleenfully inclined, there was a store of glaring errors
and inaccuracies in every other paragraph: butI purposely overlooked them, till
this friend dragged forward a few, which I must now animadvert on; and even
here, ...
5
Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son
I faced that saddle-colored mountain of laziness, that iniquitous amorist, that
awful genius of the domestic hinterland, and addressed her spleenfully: "Just one
more word from you about not getting breakfast at six o'clock and I'll haul you out
of ...
William Alexander Percy, 1973
6
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany
Had I been captiously or spleenfully inclined, there was a store of glaring errors
and inaccuracies in every other paragraph: but I purposely overlooked them, till
this friend dragged forward a few, which I must now animadvert on ; and even
here ...
7
The European Magazine, and London Review
Angry at his own incompetent reasons, Demetrius retorted spleenfully — "I have
been tempted to believe it since 1 have found one half the world created to
degrade ind deceive the other Yet we call that half the loveliest !— You will thank
me ...
8
The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and ...
But to discriminate such styles, whether Persian or English, requires taste and
judgment : neither of which Mund shows, or is likely to show. Had I been
captiously or spleenfully inclined, there was a store of glaring errors and
inaccuracies in ...
of his Titmarsh following Mr. Yellowplush into Lord Cinqbar's drawing-room,
repeated the Highland dirge to Thackeray, who answered un- spleenfully : " I can'
t eat more dinners than I did last year and dine at home with my dear little women
...
Juliet McMaster, Juliet Harvey, Harvey Julian Elizabeth Lucia Harvey
10
Spirit of peers and people, a national tragi-comedy [in ...
Tell them the Lord Bishop of Babylon is engaged, and cannot see them ; but he
vouchsafes them permission to leave their petition, if they think it worth while. [^
Servant bows profoundly, and retires. Babel. (pushing his papers aside
spleenfully.) ...
Richard Henry Horne, 1834
