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单词 catchpenny
例句 catchpenny
Rather than teach a series of tricks and tips for momentary success in speaking, as any catchpenny sophist might, Aristotle sought to form a coherent view of why those tips and tricks worked. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
The cautionary example of what not to do is Niagara Falls, which, as Henry James kvetched, had become “choked in the horribly vulgar shops and booths and catchpenny artifices.” Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z
It didn’t take long for The New York Times to warn Albany Republicans against succumbing to “the catchpenny cry of local politicians on the subject of ‘Home Rule.’” Albany to City: Drop Dead 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z
“The storage battery is, in my opinion, a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies,” wrote Thomas Edison in 1883. Batteries Are Taking Over the World 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
The swift twilight of New York was almost upon him when he was next distracted from his thoughts by the crossing shouts of loud-voiced men bawling forth a catchpenny extra of a third-rate evening paper. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z
I hate the hurried little subordinate part that one plays in the catchpenny picture-book—and the negation of all literature that the insolence of the picture-book imposes. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z
Miller's article seems to be based solely on my little catchpenny title. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z
Wrote a tale of "'76," which with others will make a catchpenny book. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z
It is the staple commodity of your newspaper-mongers, and the catchpenny song of the streets. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846
As to frequenting tippling shops of any denomination, that was impossible because no such catchpenny lures for students existed in the country, or would have been tolerated. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
Fortunate, indeed, is the famous man who escapes the catchpenny biographer.  Old Familiar Faces
The very vulgarization of letters indeed, the broadsheets and pamphlets and catchpenny magazines of Grub Street, were doing for the mass of the people a work which greater writers could hardly have done. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767
He" Lord Burton, "asked why this drastic, this dishonest, this catchpenny, this gerrymandering Bill should have been brought in?.... Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893
Brice, I want your play to be thoroughly honest and true from beginning to end, and not to have any sort of catchpenny effectivism in it. The Story of a Play A Novel
The first life of Pope was a catchpenny book, by William Ayre, published in 1745, and remarkable chiefly as giving the first version of some demonstrably erroneous statements, unfortunately adopted by later writers. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
Mr. Hanson says of the volume "Eliza Wharton": "The catchpenny volume of letters which pretend to give her history has but the figments of the imagination of its authoress to recommend it." The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
What this "gentleman" thought fit, was to publish them with a catchpenny title and an alleged extract by way of motto to sanction it. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
We stroll toward this, through the groups of promenaders, run the gauntlet of the booths, inspecting hopelessly their catchpenny wares and games, and find ourselves before it. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
Anna, or the Memoirs of a Welsh Heiress, interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob, is a kind of bad imitation of Miss Burney, with a catchpenny "interspersion" to suit the day. The English Novel
"His translators lay three in a bed at the Pewter Platter Inn in Holborn," and helped to compile his indecent, piratical, and catchpenny productions. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
Their popularity is not of the catchpenny sort; thoughtful people read them, as well as the great drove of the undiscriminating. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
No advertisements, no self-recommendation, no catchpenny tricks of trade were allowed; and yet the business went on, and, I am assured, prospered with legitimate profits. The Life of John Ruskin
"The whole affair is a manifest catchpenny!" observes he, scarcely under his breath. Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
It's not a regular theatre; only a catchpenny show, got up by a Frenchman, who came from Singapore a fortnight since. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
You know already by the title that it is no more than a catchpenny. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography
And on the whole I think what one might call useful or catchpenny accomplishments are also passing their zenith—shorthand lessons, book-keeping lessons, and such-like impostures upon parental credulity. Mankind in the Making
It is horrible to hear the street criers bawling out in their catchpenny voices, "Serious illness of Lord Derby." Lady John Russell
Pirate," and would sometimes sing for his benefit that famous catchpenny ballad beginning thus: "Oh! my name was Captain Brand, A-sailing, And a-sailing; Oh! my name was Captain Brand, A-sailing free. Stolen Treasure
All the books I see make me sick—only catchpenny nonsense. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
The ordinary lover of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean plays like Measure for Measure. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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