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Definition of Colloquies
1. colloquy [n] - See also: colloquy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquies
Literary usage of Colloquies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"Twenty select colloquies by Sir Roger L'Estrange, to which are added seven new
colloquies, as also the life of Erasmus by Mr. Brown. Lond. 1699. 8vo. ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"Considering the very wide range in subject of the colloquies} it is not quite
insignificant that literary matters have but a The small place in them; ..."
3. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... his celebrated colloquies, which he dedicated to John ... colloquies.
A provincial council alfo, held at Cologn in 1549, ..."
4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"The two Pastoral colloquies differ from the four Come- dias, ... The comic parts
of the colloquies are the only portions of them that have merit; ..."
5. Critical and Historical Essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1903)
"SOUTHEY'S colloquies JANUARY, 1880 NOTE ON THE ESSAY S ... But what chiefly
entitles the colloquies to some regard is that they contain one of the earliest ..."
6. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"His Familiar colloquies was, in the first instance, intended to improve the ...
It would be difficult to exaggerate the effect which the colloquies must ..."
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