Citations:spleen
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English citations of spleen
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[edit]- 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →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.
- (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.