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Definition of Classicisms
1. classicism [n] - See also: classicism
Literary usage of Classicisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The eclogues, epistles, odes, elegies, and sonnets of this school are often
perfect in form and contain much real poetry, but the classicisms which at first ..."
2. A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury (1912)
"... such an easy eloquence, with such an effect, as has been said already, of
flowing water. With all his learning, and his archaisms, and his classicisms, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"There are vast possibilities of evil in it if, planting ourselves on dogmas,
traditions, and classicisms, or attaching too absolute an ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... with classicisms ; and he had a delicacy of raillery that amused, and a power
of logic that smote heavily, where blows were in order. ..."
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