 Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and wherever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them...  The Literature of Ecstasy - Stran 231avtor: Albert Mordell - 1921 - 254 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1926 - 550 strani
...future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self -deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating... | |
 | William Archer - 1898 - 496 strani
...future upon earth does not attract it : their honesty and shapeliness in the present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short - sightedly, plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 120 strani
...shapeli- / ness in the present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, bombastical. hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically...shortsightedly, plotting dementedly : whenever they gje at vnrinnpp wjfh f-heir professions, and ^iolate j^the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them... | |
 | 1897 - 632 strani
...present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombástica!, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...short-sightedly, plotting dementedly ; whenever they offend sound reason, fair justice ; are false in humility or mixed with conceit . . . the Spirit overhead... | |
 | William Archer - 1898 - 500 strani
...present does ; and wheneverthey wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bom bast ical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate ; whenever...into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short - sightedly, plotting demented!y ; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 strani
...future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self -deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1909 - 510 strani
...future upon earth does not attract it ; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does ; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...plotting dementedly ; whenever they are at variance w1th their professions, and violate the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them in consideration... | |
 | Kate Gordon - 1909 - 330 strani
...civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook." Also, in his " Essay on Comedy," he says that whenever men "wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it (the comic spirit) sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting... | |
 | Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie (bart.) - 1910 - 560 strani
...are heaven-born keepers, are apt to be conceited, opinionative, dogmatic, despotic, and imperious, "given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities,...absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly." They regard with disdam the suggestions of the man who has learned his business by mere patient plodding.... | |
 | Joseph Warren Beach - 1911 - 244 strani
...the "Essay on Comedy" constitutes in some sort a violation of nature. Whenever, the critic says, men "wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious,...hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it [the Comic Spirit] sees them selfdeceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting... | |
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