10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERBRED»
Discover the use of
underbred in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
underbred and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its ...
division of benefits will not meet the underbred exigencies of a war conducted on
the mechanistic lines of the modern state of the industrial arts. So the blameless,
and for the purpose imbecile, executive committee of gentlemeninvestors ...
The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many
apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before
something that is of a visibly underbred order. Increasingly underbred, and
thereby ...
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Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810-1840: Cockney Adventures
'We are quite at a loss', Ybe Examiner went on, 'how the danger will be increased
because the education is to be bestowed on an “underbred cock— | ),)
neypopulation : [Fine word, that 'underbred!' especially as applied by a profligate
vulgar ...
rs*iurH in cities are the plares in which all politic*! tumults onguiate — lei ihem
consider the results of an education which is to expand and rxeite? the minds ol
an underbred cockney population, unrestrained by religious instruction." We
should ...
Leigh Hunt, Albany William Fonblanque, John Forster, 1825
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
An underbred book—that is, a book inwhich the underbred characters
arethenatural outcome of theauthor's own, mindand apprehensionof life—is
worse thanany possible epidemic;for while the epidemic may killa number of
uselessor vulgar ...
Charles Dudley Warner, 2014
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The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner
An underbred book—that is, a book in which the underbred characters are the
natural outcome of the author's own, mind and apprehension of life—is worse
than any possible epidemic; for while the epidemic may kill a number of useless
or ...
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The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
"Catherine, how often, how very often have I told you that expressions of rapture
such as you have just given way to are underbred." "Why are they underbred,
mother?" Catherine's tone was aggressive, and Mabel again kicked her sister's
foot.
It amazed him that they could be so patient and lucid with beings so underbred.
Underbred was the word he used in his mind. Himself, he felt the most underbred
of all; he was afraid of these Utopians; snobbish and abject before them, he was
...
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Think's-I-to-myself, a serio-ludicro, tragico-comico tale, ...
me, an " underbred nasty fellow," I will willingly alter; their comments have
certainly made it so, and I am very sorry I have given the least occasion for it.
Their general opinion of my book is, " that all the merit, the spirit, and the wit of it
are hung ...
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Thinks-I-to-myself: a serio-ludicro, tragico-comico tale
me, an " underbred nasty fellow," I will willingly alter ; their comments have
certainly made it so, and I am very sorry I have given the least occasion for it.
Their general opinion of my book is, " that all the merit, the spirit, and the wit of it
are hung ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERBRED»
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underbred is used in the context of the following news items.
Did the Bloomsbury set really launch sexual liberation in 1910?
Virginia struggled mightily in reviewing James Joyce's 'Ulysses': she recognised it as a work of genius, and yet she called it "illiterate, underbred... the book of ... «Irish Independent, Aug 15»
David Sexton: Well done to the BBC for revealing how up itself …
It was remembered that Woolf had reacted so disdainfully to James Joyce's Ulysses, the great modernist novel she never wrote, calling it “an illiterate, underbred ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
Book review: THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE
Ezra Pound, despite making fine translations of some of his poems, described him as “bald-headed, pot-bellied, underbred, sycophantic.” After all, it was Horace ... «Taipei Times, Jul 15»
Your Tuesday Briefing
Virginia Woolf called it an “illiterate, underbred” book. Gertrude Stein labeled Joyce “incomprehensible.” And The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
How Would 'Ulysses' Be Received Today?
An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf
It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.” But it was “Ulysses,” and the bewilderment caused by “Ulysses,” a novel that restricts ... «The New Yorker, Nov 14»
The Most Dangerous Book: the Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by …
Privately, Mrs Woolf considered it “an illiterate underbred book; the book of an illiterate self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are”. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
Book Review: 'The Most Dangerous Book' by Kevin Birmingham
Woolf's comment to her diary that "Ulysses" was "illiterate, underbred . . . the book of a self taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are," has ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»
Broken Age: a new era of adventure dawns, but looks familiar
Adventure was on its deathbed, the victim of greedy corporate busybodies and underbred console kiddies. We, gentleman all, would open our hearts and our ... «VG247, Jan 14»
From the Stacks: “Ulysses”
"An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me ... the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, ... «The New Republic, Aug 13»
