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«Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.»
Author: George Borrow
| Keywords:
compound, Englishmen, present day, punster, punsters, scribbler, scribblers, sherry, sickly, transform, warlike
«With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public',' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
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advertised, agency, caption, captions, coarsely, colossal, creeping, disguised, familiarity, homeliness, manufactured, materialistic, monstrous, propaganda, sentiment, sickly, sweet tooth, The Agency, The Sweet, tooth, unreal
«For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.»
«It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Dostoyevsky, mixture, regrettable, sickly, stirring, sublime, the sublime
«Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back a»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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calf, chewing, contentment, dishrag, reedy, serene, sickly, spectacle, suggestive, suggestive of, tenor, Tenors
«The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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beget, chestnut, fetch, gorgeous, horse chestnut, sickly
«Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which, if not fed, expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires»
Author: William Congreve
| Keywords:
consuming, expires, feeding, fires, sickly, wastes, with ambition
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