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Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z
This will seem a hard saying to many, and it is indeed far removed from the sensual idolatry of mere size that vulgarises modern Imperialism. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z
A better example of the vulgarising effects of wealth, and of the refining effects of being without it, was never packed in a neater compass. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z
An almost incessant volume of polluted and polluting outcries rises to the skies from these dens of sin, smirching and vulgarising the brilliant ideals of a holy festival. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z
For the rest the crudity and levity of the whole affair were decidedly painful, and few things, I think, have lately done more to vulgarise the public sense of the character of artistic production. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z
So does our poor human nature vulgarise and travesty Christ’s solemn command to deny ourselves and take up our cross after Him. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z
The refinement of the courtiers' circle, though somewhat vulgarised compared with that of the previous period, freely penetrated into the families of the rough soldiery. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z
From our Lord's own commentary upon their rejection we learn to beware of the vulgarising effects of familiarity. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
I will, therefore, say, that the inward beauty, whether fully represented or not by the outward form, implies, in the first place, the absence of all those qualities which tend to lower and vulgarise life. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z
Chamberlain has continued the work of Disraeli, but he has done so by vulgarising and brutalising it. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z
This vogue was later to bring fortune to a larger and more luxurious theatre, the Gaiety, under Nellie Farren, as the successor to Mrs. Bancroft, whose former rôles she vulgarised to a remarkable degree. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z
Somehow, this rather vulgarises the Ocean—for me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z
The brook, also, serves the purpose of turning the wheels of some iron and tin works; but without vulgarising any more than such accidents have done heretofore, the scenic romance of the river.  The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z
The best present-day example is the deal table in those last places to be vulgarised, farm-house or cottage kitchen. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z
It was to a considerable extent vulgarised by the amazing success of the Industrial Revolution. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z
Their privileges safe, they allow Napoleon III. to plunder France, make her the vassal of Rome, dishonour her in Mexico, ruin her finances, vulgarise debauchery. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z
Absolutely valueless—utterly without the power of giving pleasure, they only satiate the eye, and vulgarise their own forms. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z
Just now other branches of commerce attracted him; and, as he had become more and more vulgarised, he contracted coarse and extravagant habits. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z
We have now seen the worst of that society, whether crushed by the tyranny of the Caesars, or corrupted and vulgarised by sudden elevation from ignominious poverty to wealth and luxury. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
As soon as unbelief and discontent estranged the Jews of the New Testament from Christ, He would not vulgarise His miracles, nor do many mighty works among the unbelieving. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
Work, I prefer to say, is vulgarised good resolutions. The Book of This and That
Nothing lasts; love vulgarised by a commonplace legal tie least of all. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance
Such a proceeding, by depriving it of its venerable and appropriate surroundings, would vulgarise an entertainment which should have remained, within the precincts of Gray's Inn, archaic and unique. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887
A vivid and vulgarised world has deprived us of an aloof audience, for the aristocrats who once were cultured are photographed in the papers. A Novelist on Novels
If it was through such notions that they abstained from vulgarising its use, then they were on the way to paganism, through a materialised worship. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
It is so easy for posterity to vulgarise, by idle and unappreciative curiosity, spots that are sacred only to the few who feel them to be shrines. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8)
Incense is full of divine and beautiful suggestion; but the moment you begin to vulgarise it by talking, or even thinking, of its smell, all beauty and significance is destroyed. Japan A Record in Colour
For this gift of expression was such as had never been seen before, and such as, for all the copying and vulgarising of it, has never been seen since. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
Many eminent painters do not at all relish the prospect, being strongly of opinion that when every branch of art becomes popular it will be vulgarised. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast
The tide of tourists that flows yearly in Scotland, vulgarising all where it approaches, is still defined by certain barriers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25)
Thus vulgarised, the idea itself soon disappeared, to make room for urns, torches, and weepers, and the other modern paraphernalia of the churchyard. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)
It seems a pity that there should be so much vulgarising advertisement about what are supposed to be private weddings. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements
The vulgarising associations will drop off of themselves, and what was pure and lofty will remain. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
"I could not stand by," he continues, "and see the sublime figure of Christ vulgarised to make an Adelphi holiday." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
But beauty may be dishonoured, it cannot be vulgarised. The Paliser case
The family sentiment, in our vulgarised, brutalised life, has gone utterly to pot. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2
In the freedom with which he uses, without vulgarising, popular modes of speech, he has no equal among Latin writers.’—Sellar. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight
The manœuvring of the elder, which might easily have been vulgarised on the one hand or devitalised on the other, just remains refreshingly and believably human. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914
Marjory was too thorough a child to be vulgarised in that way, even in thought. The Talking Horse And Other Tales
It is not for us, who have allowed our land to be stolen by squires and then vulgarised by sham squires, to sneer at such colonists as merely crude and prosaic. What I Saw in America
Mrs. Malaprop's 'allegories on the banks of the Nile' are in a somewhat higher order of mistake: Miss Tabitha Bramble's ignorance is vulgarised by her selfishness, and Winifred Jenkins' by her conceit. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Both methods are right if well done, and both methods can equally be vulgarised if badly done. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
If ladies who adopt this bad style could only see how much it vulgarises an otherwise nice appearance, they would at once abjure it. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
With the approach of the silly season one’s thoughts turn naturally to the prospect of stealing into print and enjoying all the sweets of authorship without the reception of a cheque to vulgarise them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914
Though, of course, Osiander as a gentleman and a scholar is naturally opposed to ranting preachers and religion vulgarised.' A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
It was the cheapening—the vulgarising, so to speak, of her whole existence. Robert Elsmere
It is you, freak-fashionables, who are undoing the work of Washington and Lincoln, vulgarising your high heritage, and turning the last and noblest hope of humanity into a caricature. The Melting-Pot
But was it fair—was it just to engender a love of luxury—to introduce her to all that her nature—vulgarised by unfamiliarity—coveted most! Men of Affairs
I am not afraid of the accusation of vulgarising the classics. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America
As we stood on the now deserted pavement, exhorting and cheering him, a loud contralto voice vulgarised by an Italian accent burst upon us. Artists' Wives
I am not, of course, using the word "passion" in its modern vulgarised sense. Personality in Literature
Its traditions have been vulgarised by people who have never passed its borders. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
Thus we may console ourselves with the hope that life has vulgarised her, and that as a girl she was far less objectionable than she now represents herself to have been. Browning's Heroines
To think thus of it and of Him is not to vulgarise the Christian conception of Heaven, but to give it a definiteness and force which it sorely lacks in popular thinking. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
Do you happen to know a quaint, dreamy old region in the west of London, which bricks and mortar have not, as yet, overtaken, nor newfangled villas vulgarised? She and I, Volume 1
Do you want to know how low Art may sink when materialism triumphs and vulgarises and degrades? London Lectures of 1907
If the argument has now been vulgarised in the hands of Dr. Cumming and his like, the language and the sentiment are worthy of any of our greatest masters. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
But Thomson, so far from making poetry of it in this passage, has vulgarised and blurred by it the natural and inevitable emotion of terror and pity. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
How different that nobly simple expectation, resolving all bliss into the one element, is from the morbid curiosity as to details, which vulgarises and weakens so much of even devout anticipation of the future. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
I don't know where you come from nor how you come to be what you are, but you are outside and above all vulgarising influences. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
I suppose all would be wofully exaggerated and painfully vulgarised by the actors and actresses on such a stage.  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Thus it had vulgarised Christmas and now demanded the abolition of Christmas because it was vulgar. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is good Scots, quite free from misspelt English or that perverted slang which too often nowadays is vulgarising the old tongue. Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus
His subjects are a rather vulgarised edition of some of Beethoven's ideas in their unfinished state. Musicians of To-Day
More of a concio ad vulgus than the former, it shows a pretty obvious endeavour to soften and popularise, without unduly vulgarising, the academic tone of the earlier work. Matthew Arnold
As far as I can see, indiscriminate visiting tends only p. 267to a waste of time and a vulgarising of character.  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
"One does not like to be vulgarised," said the Lady of Meissen, angrily. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
When I heard that there was to be a procession, the word vulgarised the whole affair. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852
It is the theatre which vulgarises these things; the modern theatre in which we see no altar! where the thymel� is replaced by the caprice of a popular actor. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
The railroad had spoiled Venice and vulgarised Switzerland. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Such a supposition would merely be to vulgarise and to stultify the divine and elusive mystery. Little Essays of Love and Virtue
"That is not so painful; it does not vulgarise you so much as the cups they paint to-day and christen after me," said a Carl Theodor cup subdued in hue, yet gorgeous as a jewel. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
Let us not vulgarise our books, as she has done her stars and flowers. Prose Fancies
He loved his familiar surroundings, for nothing can vulgarise Oxford. The Life of Froude
He modernised and multiplied its subjects, attractions, appeals: he "vulgarised" it in the partly good French sense, as well as in the wholly bad English one; he was its journalist and colporteur. The English Novel
The Cup, and The Falcon, a beautiful story beautifully written by Boccaccio, is strangely dulled, even vulgarised, by Tennyson. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
Formerly we used to canonise our great men; nowadays we vulgarise them.  Reviews
"How soon will it all be spoilt and vulgarised?" said Delaine, with a shrug. Lady Merton, Colonist
The telescope has banished Phoebus and Diana from our literature, and the spectroscope has vulgarised the stars. A Trip to Venus
For a commonplace, make-believe art, vulgarising in the long run both to the artist and the public! Miss Bretherton
In The Little Minister success was achieved by entirely vulgarising a charming book, by throwing away all that distinguished it, and converting what might be called a delicately sentimental comedy into a farce. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
It is true that, once let a "tuney tune" become vulgarised by street-musicians, and organic disease would be sufficient to kill it were it not tortured and ground to death by remorseless hands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891
The last is a remarkable illustrator, who "vulgarised" the austere methods of his master for popular Parisian consumption. Promenades of an Impressionist
Exams: were a Brummagem fashion Of mobs and inferior taste; They withered "Translucence" and "Passion," They vulgarised leisure by haste. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891
Money won't vulgarise Jean as it does so many people, but it may turn her into a very burdened, anxious pilgrim. Penny Plain
Do this, as a rule, by means of classical tags vulgarised down to the level of a costermonger's cart. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890
How easily this very theme may be vulgarised, is shown in the "Chevaliers de la Table Ronde" of M. Creuzé de Lesser, who nevertheless has aimed at a peculiar delicacy of treatment. Famous Reviews
He is a ponderous young athlete; rather say a mass of hypertrophied muscles, with the features of a vulgarised Apollo. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
But the thought of making Lords by batches vulgarised the King's majesty, and reversed the order of nature. Essays in Rebellion
I’ve led the life of the world, with my wife and my progeny; the clumsy conventional expensive materialised vulgarised brutalised life of London.  The Lesson of the Master
Pure modernity of form is always somewhat vulgarising Intentions
His marriage to that woman has hopelessly vulgarised him. Vanity Fair
Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people.  Beasts and Super-Beasts
Is not the phrase, in line 7, page 6, "Great lake," too much vulgarised by every-day language for so sublime a poem? The Letters of Robert Burns
This chivalry is called the soul of Japan, and if it fades life is vulgarised. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
How she vulgarises that pretty girl, her cousin, by mere contrast! Lord Kilgobbin
These men have vulgarised an epic, and smirched poetry and painting alike for the sake of a tawdry sensation. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
Do not so vulgarise and lower the nobleness and the loftiness of this great promise as to suppose that it only means—If you remember His words you will get anything you like. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
It has been vulgarised, and the power taken out of it by many well-meant attempts to impress it upon men's hearts. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
Only do not vulgarise that great promise by making it out to mean that, if we will be good, He will give us the earthly blessings which we wish. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
The thought is too solemn to be vulgarised by pulpit rhetoric. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
English scenery is getting spoilt and vulgarised to such a degree that there'll soon be none of it left to sketch. Monitress Merle
The first of the new realists to win general recognition was A. N. Tolstoy, who speedily caught and vulgarised Remizov's knack of creating grotesque "provincial" characters. Tales of the Wilderness
An English eccentric or two is sure to have lived and died here all by himself; though doubtless, once on the spot, they did their best to popularise and vulgarise it. Alone
It is not becoming to make such a solemn message the opportunity for pictorial rhetoric, which vulgarises its greatness and weakens its power. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
All the poetry of Italy has been dried up, and the whole country vulgarised. Phantom Fortune, a Novel
It was the hour vulgarised in drawing-room ballads as the 'gloaming.' The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne
If he had, his memory would have been more vulgarised by them, than by any Yankee kicker at his grave! Temporal Power
Yet, he looked a man of finer breeding than Shubin; more of a gentleman, one might say, if that word had not been so vulgarised among us. On the Eve
He made an attempt on his own life; and, being with difficulty restrained, his agitation sunk into a kind of sullen insensibility, which seemed to absorb all sentiment, and gradually vulgarised his faculty of thinking. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
The very room seemed vulgarised by the change. Phantom Fortune, a Novel
A truthful representation of a vulgarised piece of nature would be very painful for an artist to look on or to paint. Mrs. Shelley
Pisa and its monuments have, in other words, been industriously vulgarised, but it is astonishing how well they have survived the process. Italian Hours
The age is enlightened, that is to say, that knowledge, obtained and vulgarised, suffices to set right at least our practical principles. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
That cigarette stuck in her pretty mouth, vulgarised her appearance at once,—coarsened her— made her look as if she were indeed the rapid 'Maryllia Van' his friend Bishop Brent had written of. God's Good Man
It was written on gilt-edged letter-paper, in a handwriting vulgarised by innumerable flourishes. Basil
They were behind the times only in the sense of escaping, by seclusion, those modern tendencies which vulgarise. The Crown of Life
Paula was still charming, but it must be confessed a trifle vulgarised. Thyrza
A fanaticism of this sort deforms and vulgarises the well-known work, in some respects so remarkable, of the late Mr. Buckle. Culture and Anarchy
But then what must Mr. Goodenough do but dub it the Annabella sunshade, and blazon it, considerably vulgarised, in all the railway stations, and magazines.' Nuttie's Father
My dear, common is as common does; and a vulgar calling ends by vulgarising those who have the misfortune to pursue it. Australia Felix
Mother of all, though mother of none in particular, she was not to be vulgarised by ordinary domestic relations, For those purposes Cunnumbeillee was at hand, as a bearer of children and a caterer. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia
They vulgarise and degrade whatever is interesting or sacred to the mind, and suppose that they thus add to the dignity of their profession. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners
From such an ignoble spectacle as that of poor Mrs. Lincoln,—a spectacle to vulgarise a whole nation,—aristocracies undoubtedly preserve us. Culture and Anarchy
Then came chromatic scales of colour; combinations meant to vulgarise the rainbow; sinfonies and fugues; the twittering of birds and the great peace of dewy nature; maidenhood in her awakening innocence; "The Dawn in June." Democracy, an American novel
The commonest model becomes full of exquisite suggestions to him who has formed this idea; a Venus of flesh and blood would be vulgarised by the imitation of him who has not. Zanoni
You may depend upon it, my dear, making religion and education common—vulgarising them, as it were—is a bad thing for a nation.  My Lady Ludlow
In short, poor as they may be, the Scottish versions are those of a people not yet wholly vulgarised, not yet lost to romance. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies
From this system I should not like to depart; as far as I can see, Indiscriminate visiting tends only to a waste of time and a vulgarising of character. Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2
That would be vulgarising something that was already a little profaned by my innocent participation. Penelope's English Experiences
To the eye that has reluctantly discovered this truth—that the vulgarised are not uncivilised, and that there is no growth for them—it does not look like a future at all.  The Rhythm of Life
Burns came in, stick and hat in hand, incredibly vulgarised by his smart shore togs, with a jaunty air and an odious twinkle in his eye.  'Twixt Land and Sea
In my contempt for vulgarised and conventionalised honour I had forgotten that for me there was such a reality as honour. The New Machiavelli
Literary and pictorial alike, it had for its notice the vulgarising of the married woman.  The Rhythm of Life
In that time there was, moreover, one great humourist; he bore his part willingly in vulgarising the woman; and the part that fell to him was the vulgarising of the act of maternity.  The Rhythm of Life
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