10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNHEROICAL»
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unheroical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Lost; or, What came of a slip from 'honour bright'.
I do not think I know many things more unheroical than deception, in whatever
shape, or however foolish folks and unwise try to palliate it. A thief is unheroical
enough — even when the thieving is put into a kind of masquerading dress by
the ...
John Christopher Atkinson,
1870
2
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... dermdation which ever has befallen 'ngland. Then came the Constitutional
Revolution—bloodless, parliamentary, and unheroical, Without a sin le man
connects-d with it who hel the sway of genius over the minds or im ' ions of the
pen ...
3
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
If I venture to think it somewhat injured in the person of Cicero, my excuse must
be that I have lately read the panegyrical life of him by Middleton ; an author, who
has the art of making his hero unheroical. " Regulus, when he went out of Rome ...
4
The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed
... race for the first word, and the most precipitate speaker be the conqueror
crowned with laurel. In a little while, it is clear that there would be no war at all ;
and then mankind, out of pure unheroical necessity, would be forced to be
reasonable ...
Then came the Constitutional Revolution—bloodless, parliamentary, and
unheroical, without a single man connected with it who held the sway of genius
over the minds and imaginations of the people. 11.: distinguishing features were
plots ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell,
1856
as something like the fulfilment of that forerunning apostle of the unheroical,
Samuel Butler. Two features attract the English intellectual in Chekhov, the one
ethical, the other aesthetical, but both converging towards what may appear a ...
7
The Poems of Browning: Volume Two: 1841-1846
Oh—indeed I foresaw that—not a guess of mine ever touched such an end—and
I can scarcely resign myself to it as a necessity even now . . I mean, to the act, as
Luria's act, whether it is final or not—the act of suicide being so unheroical.
John Woolford, Daniel Karlin,
2014
8
The New Monthly Magazine
If I venture to think it somewhat injured in the person of Cicero, my excuse must
be that I have lately read the panegyrical life of him by Middleton ; an author, who
has the art of making his hero unheroical. " Regulus, when he went out of Rome ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton,
1825
The vulnerability of the Longhorns was as unheroical as that of Achilles. The one
enemy that threw them into a panic was the heel fly. When heel flies struck them,
whether loose on the range or under herd, they h'isted their tails and bolted as if ...
10
Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents
I own Ifelt rather intimidatedbyso formidable aprospect, and wasvery near
abandoning my plan of crossing the mountains, and so go backagainand round
about,the Lord knows where; but consideringthis step would bequite unheroical ...