Citations:spleen

English citations of spleen

Bad mood

• 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, →OCLC:

  In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.

• 1843, “A Voice from Trinidad”, in Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 465:

  Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.

• 1929, Owen Lattimore, “The Black Gobi”, in The Desert Road To Turkestan‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 227:

  The name I like best, however, I heard uttered by the Eldest Son of the House of Chou, who in a moment of spleen referred to his colleague of the House of Liang as hsiao chu-tan, the Little Pig’s Egg.

To give splines to

• (Can we date this quote?), New York Supreme Court, page 9:

  Trim to be mitred, glued and spleened at factory and brought to the job put together.