10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPLENETICALLY»
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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
826.64 R. and B. 9.397 Splenetically. Splenetically must repay its cost .... 647.11
Aristoph.Con. 530 Splice. Not even, say, some patch of province, splice 929.4
Prince H. 1893 Spliced. Or threat with his fist, since his arms are spliced? 368.60
...
2
Waverley Novels: Old Mortality ; [1]
Your waking thoughts, sir,” said the second of Miss Vere's compan.ions, with a
sort of mock gravity, “ are fixed, doubtless,' upon wisdom ; folly can only intrude
on your sleeping moments.” “ Over thine,” retorted the Dwarf, more splenetically ...
3
The History of Women from the Earliest Antiquity to the ...
While we take every opportunity of telling them, when present, that their persons
are handsome and elegant, that their sentiments and actions are all perfection;
when absent, we laugh at their credulity, and splenetically satirise and exhibit to ...
William I Alexander, 1782
4
Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some ...
Horace Walpole splenetically describes the scene on the river to the Countess of
Ossory, after making his way home with difficulty from the Duke of Richmond's,
and adds, " now all the company is stewing in Ranelagh." A week before the civic
...
Charles Robert Leslie, 1865
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The British Journal of Psychiatry
I knew an honest gardener, the overseer of sonic extensive pleasure grounds,
who once splenetically exclaimed, ' Shall I see these clouds for ever passing from
east to west.' It is told of one of our most distinguished men that he viewed with ...
Baleful I suppose was the word for what I did - incongruities, absurdities and
falsities eyed splenetically and in the English manner: Gillray, Rowlandson et al,
but more fingery in the line, more pernickety, and without the current affairs. Not
yet ...
7
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
We have heard of the Englishman who hanged himself, to be no more troubled
with daily putting off and on his clothes. I knew an honest gardener, the overseer
of some extensive pleasure-grounds, who once splenetically exclaimed : Shall I ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle
General Lafayette suddenly appears in the Assembly ; without leave, as is
splenetically observed : makes fruitless attempt to reinstate authority in Paris (
June 28th) ; withdraws as an extinct popularity. 1792. July. July 6th,
Reconciliatory Scene ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 1837
The ordinary schemer is always an optimist; and Stockmar, racked by dyspepsia
and haunted by gloomy forebodings, was a constitutionally melancholy man. A
schemer, no doubt, he was; but he schemed distrustfully, splenetically, to do
good.
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The new Bath guide; or Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family, in a ...
... His farces are physic, and physic his farce is." Another splenetically says — "
The worst that we wish thee, for all thy vile crimes, Is to take thy own physic, and
read thy own rhymes." To which it was rejoined — " If he takes SIR JOHN HILL.
Christopher Anstey, John Britton, 1830
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPLENETICALLY»
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Jason Schwartzman: 'This guy is so obnoxious, so abrasive, just off …
... many failed marriages and relationships, a splenetically embittered daughter (Kristen Ritter) and myriad sundered friendships – offer one possible scenario for ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Documentaries on Churchill and Joan of Arc offer fresh insights …
Winston was, it turned out, woefully, wilfully, splenetically antipathetic to the labouring classes, to a degree bordering on dysfunction. “I did not understand what ... «The Guardian, May 15»
The 7th Uncut Playlist Of 2015
Like most other people in the UK, I guess, my timeline was full of people watching the BRIT Awards, splenetically. What did we all do before social media, ... «Uncut.co.uk, Feb 15»
Paul Benneworth: British universities are running scared of …
Censorship drives poisonous ideas to the fringes, where they are readily fertilised in the darkness, and grow malignantly to burst splenetically into our body ... «The Journal, Feb 15»
Sorry, chaps, that's no way to load a dishwasher
My own spouse will erupt splenetically at my amateurish efforts to work it. It's a guy thing. I've watched, when friends come for dinner, how other husbands, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
Merchants of Doubt review – strategic cunning of climate-change …
Robert Kenner addresses a topic last raised, more splenetically, in Craig Rosebraugh's 2012 film Greedy Lying Bastards: the growth industry of climate-change ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
YouTube studio Rooster Teeth launches 'family-friendly' Game Kids …
Some of its content – the splenetically sweary Rage Quit strand, for example – may not be seen as child-friendly by some parents. “Our goal is to create family ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Anne McElvoy: Politicians may be smooth but they eff and blind like …
Mr Mitchell, in my experience, has always been a very Tory mixture of the courteous when happy and the splenetically expressive when not. I recall him bearing ... «Evening Standard, Nov 14»
The Judge: a likable, two-inch-deep legal potboiler
In James Foley's adaptation of that novel, the father, a splenetically racist Klansman, was played by Duvall's ferocious contemporary Gene Hackman, while the ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
Raymond Deane, one-time writer of acidic reviews, turns his pen on …
He might mutter into his chin a couple of carefully barbed words that were capable of ripping an opponent apart or sometimes rail splenetically about things that ... «Irish Times, Jul 14»
