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Definition of Exuberances
1. exuberance [n] - See also: exuberance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exuberances
Literary usage of Exuberances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões (1877)
"Homer, though the father of the epic poem, has his exuberances, which violently
trespass against the first rule of the epopea, the unity of the action. ..."
2. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"The sad exuberances of Hamlet are merely like the glad exuberances of Falstaff.
This is not conjecture; it is the text of Shakespeare. ..."
3. Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1835)
"... but for the sake of justice to the dead and candour to the living, to mark
the progress of the art itself, to correct the exuberances of its professors, ..."
4. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"the exuberances of its professors, to point out their excellences, to whisper to
them the advice which they can never collect from the thunder of applause. ..."
5. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"... has followed Homer more closely, reducing, however, to line and measure the
exuberances of his model, and thus presenting the graces of regularity ..."
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