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criticised as an illustration of the excesses of metaphysical poetry; despite detractors, it remains "the best known sustained conceit" in English poetry. As...

(1922) Women and Gold (1925) Cradle Snatchers (1927) A Gentleman of Paris (1927) The Noose (1928) Good Morning, Judge (1928) Woman Trap (1929) Blaze o'Glory...

virtuous" qualities of Darby and Joan. John Darby and his wife Joan were first mentioned in print in a poem published in The Gentleman's Magazine by Henry...

Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge). Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels. Originally the conceit of the story was that Master Humphrey...

probably why it's his last great film too. Leaning into the horrific conceit of a musical that is about a vengeful barber murdering any loner who steps...

vehicle to show off his abilities with conceit and rhetoric, rather than to construct a satirical critique of Spanish Golden Age society. Miguel de Cervantes...

of the novel was still questionable. In a 2009 review, critic Robin McKie considers the novel to be technically mediocre, saying that the conceit of the...

with Elizabeth's previous observations of Darcy's arrogance, conceit, and selfish disdain of the feelings of others, has caused her to dislike him intensely...

without being aggressively macho, irreverent but also sincere – helps sell a conceit that might have crashed with any other actor". Jawan broke the records...

follower of Hal: This was a young gentleman of good family, but bad morals; that is to say, for the present. He was one of those loyal natures who, in all...

published by Black Coat Press. The stories share the conceit of taking place in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from pulp fiction, and...

character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung. Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays,...

share Macaulay's view of Boswell's character. Boswell, though "a foolish, inflated creature, swimming in an element of self-conceit"), had had, said Carlyle...

stabbed by him "Hold your tongue; your wretched style only makes me out of conceit with them.": 103  — François de Malherbe, French poet, critic and translator...

Retrieved October 8, 2020. He says this without conceit, El Príncipe de la Canción – the Prince of Song, as he is known – had led a life that until recently...

deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music...

originally thought he had "a defect in the region of the heart" and a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its...

of gentleman. William's father John, a bailiff of Stratford with a wife of good birth, was eligible for a coat of arms and applied to the College of Heralds...

Desiderata Curiosa a list of documents in his possession that he intended to print someday. They included "a pleasant conceit of Vere, earl of Oxford, discontented...

gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on as a criterion of form...