10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSUPERFLUOUS»
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1
Homiletics: And Pastoral Theology
The most that is required is, that the passage of Scrip- . ture, selected as the
foundation of the sacred oration, should, like the oration itself, be single, full, and
unsuperfluous in its character. It should be single, containing only one general
theme ...
William Greenough Thayer Shedd, 1872
2
Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be
well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered
with her store; (768–74) Plenitude and waste need not go hand in hand—need
not ...
3
Glencreggan: or, A Highland home in Cantire
Not less ingenious and lapwinglike are his flights from the dirty cottage to "
honest poverty, — strength of muscle and mind, — plain, coarse, not scanty, but
unsuperfluous fare, — the future brightening before the steadfast eyes of trust, —
the ...
4
Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, In Four Books : To which is ...
... moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pamper'd luxury Now
heaps upon some ew with vast excess, Nature's full blellings would be well
dispens'd, In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit cncumber'd with
her flore, ...
5
Celia in Search of a Husband
If every just man, that now pine! with want, Had but a. moderate and becoming
share Of that which lewdly pamper'd Luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast
excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispens'd, In unsuperfluous even ...
Medora Gordon Byron, 1809
6
The Boston Quarterly Review
... Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pampered
luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would
be well dispens'd, In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit
encumbered ...
Orestes Augustus Brownson, 1842
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The Poetical Works of John Milton
... Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pamper'd
luxury TTO Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings
would be well dispens'd In unsuperfluous even proportion,
Andshenowhitincumber'd ...
8
A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with ...
UNSUPERFLUOUS, ùn-(hu-pér'- flù ús. a. Not more than enough. UNSUPPLAN
PED, ùn-sùp-plânt'- Id. a. Not forced, or thrown from under that which supports it;
not defeated by stratagem. UNSUPPORTABLE, ûn-sup-pô'rt- 3 O ébl. - ébl. a.
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English Literature and Ancient Languages
In unsuperfluous even proportion . . . (767-72) Milton, that is, connects the 'easie
hearted man' not with joy (Comus' seductive lie) but with ' hard besetting need' (
856) and so exposes the false pretence by which luxury is made to be so ...
... moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pamper'd Luxury Now
heaps upon som few with vast excess, Natures full blessings would be well
dispenc't In unsuperfluous eeven proportion, And she no whit encomber d with
her store ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSUPERFLUOUS»
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Flowering Narcissus
An unsuperfluous predator; an unapologetic survivor. It resembles the object of Byron's poem: “She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry ... «Harvard Crimson, Jul 14»
