Lexicographical Neighbors of Frigidities
Literary usage of Frigidities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"... or frigidities in language or style, are said to arise from four causes, ...
and Alcidamas, some of which we shall briefly consider. 1. frigidities ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... frigidities," SfC. " Cool shades, air-fanning groves, With your soft whisperings,
Where Pleasure smiling roves Through dewy caves and springs, ..."
3. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... and frigidities. But they make no appeal to sympathy; and, but for the one
reserved point again, they are too unreal to inspire terror. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... nor of the immense place which it held in English poetry from its beginnings
in Spenser till it dwindled away in the frigidities of Shirley. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"He blends a rancorous personal spleen with the frigidities of the contemptuous
metaphysician, and revives, in the apparent absence of all convictions, ..."
6. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1850)
"Yes," I replied, " mentally and physically, the heats and frigidities of the soul
as well as of the body. After all, man will never colonize Utopia, ..."
7. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... strictures on the frigidities of Congreve's Elegies ; but these were usually
in couplet. " On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing " is a very pretty Pindaric, ..."
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