| 单词 | grossness |
| 例句 | I know it makes me a horrible person, but after Ellis’s grossness this morning, I kinda wish it was still there. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I'd been thinking how Gypsies wanted the rest of us to be gross, so the grossness of what they're not acts as a stencil for what they are. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He uses his voice and his big, sad eyes to convey a delicacy at odds with the character’s corporeal grossness. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But the grossness is also partly the point. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Even he drops by for a cameo preview of his grossness behind closed doors. HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” knows how to put on a show 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z You don’t want to get rid of that because that still exists and that’s fun, but you want to get rid of the grossness. She Dances. He Directs. How They Created a Balletic Battle of the Sexes. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z But the unheard music of Stone’s lower intestinal tract is nonetheless a key structural element, organizing “Flux Gourmet” into an elegant fugue of contrapuntal themes: grossness and refinement; pleasure and disgust; appetite and discipline. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z That shouldn’t keep us from saying that this kind of grossness is wrong, in bold letters. What If the New York Times Experimented on You Like Facebook? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The movie’s blend of self-aware insult humor, self-indulgent grossness, celebrity cameos and strenuous whimsy represents a fairly standard recipe for sketch-comedy-derived feature films. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z We could laugh at his grossness, secure in the knowledge that we weren’t really xenophobic because we were also sneering at the fools falling for the trick. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z But as gross and loathsome as this whole thing is, what if we didn’t add to the grossness and loathsomeness of it? Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison account: Celebrity infidelity doesn’t justify the outing of hacked clients 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Gefilte fish has long suffered from an undeserved reputation for grossness. Gefilte fish isn't just for Jews: The Passover staple is a great daily snack 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Fortunately, it's all delivered with a winning charm that takes the edge off the grossness. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-26T06:00:13Z In her delightfully oversimplified way, Coulter has yet again tapped into the thriving racist, xenophobic beating heart of America, legitimizing spectacular grossness by making it the stuff of bestselling books. Ann Coulter’s odious anti-Muslim rants: Of course she’s exploiting the Paris terror attacks to entertain racist, xenophobic fans 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Chung demonstrates admirable patience but not a lot of comic ability, which is unfortunate given that much of the comedy is supposed to derive from her reactions to the grossness around her. Review: ‘Resident Advisors’ Brings Playground Humor to the Dorms 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z There’s a certain scene in the bath that is seared in my brain, and the ending is absurd French philosophy grossness. 'Will make you jump out of your skin': readers on the best underseen horror films 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “He is cigar smoking — the epitome of grossness.” Before She Was Miss Piggy, This Muppet Went By Another Name 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In recent years, grossness has become less a unifying human leveller and more a stick with which to beat society's most persecuted members. Movie 43: a gross-out workout 2013-01-18T15:00:00Z Apart from upping the ante for grossness, Akin apparently discerns a strain of dark comedy in Honka. ‘The Golden Glove’ Review: Honka, Portrait of a Serial Killer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z There is rawness as well as art in her account of the humiliations and anarchies of childhood, or the physical grossness of adults to the senses of a child. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z There’s a grossness to this work and its bodily extremes that wasn’t as visible last year at the New Museum, where Mr. Ziolkowski’s efforts looked, in the main, a bit more mature and varied. Art Review: At Hauser & Worth, Ziolkowski?s U.S. Solo Debut 2010-07-05T21:52:00Z And of course, there's the sheer grossness of Exotic himself, an exploitative profiteer who comes more unhinged with each passing episode. "Tiger King" and the schadenfreude of seeing privileged insanity run wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Even young Gunther, who in one scene laughs and watches as an entire bathroom of school toilets burbles up sewage, seems party to the grossness. | 'The Misfortunates': A Belgian Tale of a Family of Alcoholics 2010-04-09T03:40:00Z Concerned: I agree with you regarding the grossness and adult exploitation of a tween’s natural desire to look awesome and to get a lot of attention for it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Long-married hubby really wants out 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z I raged about sexist, garbage-disposal rock, about the grossness of vapid nihilism and desperate, borderline illegal sex appeal. Burgerama draws the approval of a music festival-hating musician 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z She told him that she doesn’t trust him, gave Kenny the rose, and they headed off to the helicopter to leave Lee to sulk in a pool of his own gas-lighting grossness. 'The Bachelorette' Ditches 4 Guys On 1 Scandinavian Trip 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z It's a little gross at times, though, by contemporary standards of grossness, fairly modest. 'Other Space' on Yahoo Screen a sweet, nutty confection 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The character is included without commentary and his grossness is treated entirely as comic. Quartet: The Least Exotic Country Retirement Home 2012-12-21T15:00:47Z The Reagan era legitimised greed; Anna Nicole's grossness was a logical consequence of this shift in public morality. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z There’s no grossness about them left unturned, from their poor dental hygiene to their flatulence. Jack the Giant Slayer: Fee-Fi, Ho-Hum 2013-03-01T04:30:21Z It is the Fourth of July, and Kelly’s search lands her at a wild party on Staten Island, where the sheer grossness rivals the teenage bacchanal in “Project X.” Movie Review: ‘King Kelly,’ a Satire of Lust for Internet Fame 2012-11-29T23:12:02Z But his Horrible Boss persona has deteriorated into something beyond the limits of even his own grossness. Trump: You’re fired! 2012-11-07T20:54:00Z But such grossness will only convince many kids to keep reading. Guinness, Ripley's offer worlds of fun facts for kids 2010-10-02T00:07:00Z We’re seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. Main Course: Comedy With a Side of Disgust 2011-05-20T21:11:50Z An accompanying sketch of a hamster on a slice of pizza illustrates the grossness. ‘Seventh Grade! Now in WonkyVision!’ 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z What saves even outrageous forms from grossness, though, is color, the element that Price ultimately cared about most, worked hardest at, and mastered most completely. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z Now she lives in a graciously appointed palace, dispersing her wealth through an “octopus of righteousness” to bless the less fortunate and forestall the grossness of the world. ‘The Unfortunates’ evokes a modern-day Edith Wharton novel 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Because it's one thing to have an aesthetic preference; it's quite another to shudder that female body hair is the result of forgetfulness, laziness or flat-out grossness. Women stop shaving for "Januhairy" and the backlash is all too predictable 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Especially for swing voters under significant pressure from Trump-loving relatives and neighbors, pushing Trump's grossness down the memory hole long enough to vote for him is quite alluring. Trump seethes at Fox News for limiting his on-air time — but the network is doing him a favor 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z His grossness was his appeal because it was a form of revenge on the rest of the country. Calm down! Indictment won't help Trump 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Although she claimed to “hate grossness and toughness,” she told The Times in 1972 that she would “step on someone’s sensibilities if the interview demands it.” How Barbara Walters Went From ‘Today Girl’ to Pioneering Media Star 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z “I’m like, no, this is just the season of grossness,” she said. Advice | 6 tips to avoid getting your family sick during holiday travel This perception does not motivate a desire toward self-improvement, but instead a longing for revenge, mostly in the form of imposing their grossness on the supposedly more refined existence of those they despise. How Trump and Elon build their cults: Exploiting right-wing insecurity 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z To mitigate the grossness, close the lid before flushing and keep the bowl clean. You’re probably not cleaning these 11 very germy spots 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z One site of potential smells and other general grossness to be wary of is the baffle, a.k.a. the rubber splash guard. Advice | The essential garbage disposal guide to maintenance and cleaning 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z She blended up some beets instead and away she went, overcoming her grossness factor. Pandemic cuisine: Odd pairings, old favorites on the menu 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z There is a modicum of grossness, a scattering of psychopaths, rats crawling out of corpses, some “Exorcist”-style special effects and a few digital evocations of the world in quiet ruins. 'Lord of the Rings' inspired 'The Stand.' But TV's done it no favors 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “It was always skinny like that. The rooms were caked with grossness.” How government incentives shaped the nursing home business — and left it vulnerable to a pandemic 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z It managed to offend nearly everyone else too, by pursuing violence and grossness further than any other film in Waters’s — and possibly anyone else’s — body of work. Letter of Recommendation: John Waters’s ‘Desperate Living’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Mucus may be gross, but its grossness disguises how helpful it is. Mucus contains powerful sugars that tame germs 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The grossness continued Thursday morning as both the Washington Post and the New York Times ran articles declaring that Mueller's inability to play to the cameras means that any hope of impeachment is probably dead. Media declares Mueller was boring: Who cares if Trump is a criminal? 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z As if it revealed my essential weakness, grossness, as if it were the name of a fool. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The responses I expected centered on reacting to the grossness of his message. Creepy men slide into women's DMs all the time, but they can be shut down | Talia Jane 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Plus, it has the smell component, which makes the grossness stronger. Puke, poop, and sweat: a ranking of New York City’s grossest attractions 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z “I think it is the grossness, and the size above all,” she says. London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z If you can get past the sheer sonic grossness of "Face," it seems meant as its own celebration of sound. A musical saint and her discontents at the Monday Evening Concerts – LA Times 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti". Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z We’d like to have some more grossness — some more weird creatures and stuff that will really scare us. Here’s 8 things we want to see happen in Stranger Things season 2 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “It was so much more aggressive in the UK with all the spitting and vomiting. They played it up with a grossness that wasn’t part of this scene. The Americans bands hated being spat on.” 'They wanted to be as big as the Beatles': revisiting the Ramones' legacy 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It has all added up into a large blob of sheer dumb grossness. Trump’s Mess Has Become His Message 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The jokes are often juvenile and gross, unsophisticated and insensitive, but one does not wish to strike juvenility or grossness or even insensitivity outright from the comic tool kit; these just aren't all that good. 'The Ridiculous 6,' with Adam Sandler, offers an abundance of adults acting dumb 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go. The World’s Most Luxurious Fashion Show 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z That is, until a high school friend declared my house smelled of “Chinese grossness.” How it feels when white people shame your culture’s food — then make it trendy 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Clydesdales are "handsome, weighty and powerful, but with a gaiety of carriage and outlook, so that the impression is given of quality and weight, rather than grossness and bulk," says the Clydesdale Horse Society. Prospect Capital has size, diversification and a few Clydesdales 2013-10-24T18:55:02Z The extreme grossness of literature had disappeared, and the more glaring violations of marriage were always censured and often repressed. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Extremes meet, and the savage grossness of Ham is found in many who count themselves the last and finest product of culture. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z No other author has ever treated the Northern mythology so well; because no other has attempted to give us its beauties without its grossness. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The effect of this is grossness and want of force; for in reality the component parts cannot be separated from the whole. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z She was a fine specimen of this finest of the races of woman—amply proportioned without grossness, and with that certain presence or dignity that rises above manners and rank, common to them all. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z His expression suggests a spirit purged of all grossness waiting for the summons. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z I understand, from my cousin, the origin of plays were religious mysteries; that, freed from the superstition of early, and the grossness of latter, ages, the stage is now the vehicle of delight and morality. Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z Slow of thought, and of very moderate intelligence, as he was, he had yet endeavored to purge himself of grossness before he ventured into her presence. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Now this, I think, proceeds, not exactly from grossness of perception, but from the wilfulness of our character; our desire to have things our own way, without any trouble or distraction of purpose. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z It carries its grossness to the intolerable length of attacking the private character of Mr. Willis, and throwing out foolish sneers about his birth and parentage. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z But avoiding these aggravated forms of grossness is not enough. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z "In this broad earth of ours Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Inclosed and safe within the central heart Nestles the seed perfection." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The worship of Baal had lost its grossness, and been refined into a form of monotheism. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z He did not teach his disciples to revel in grossness, although his maligners have made this charge. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.’ Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z There is a certain absence of grossness in the men and women of the West, and even their vices are characterized rather by daring than by materialistic sensuality. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z When the poet delves in the grossness and the slag, he does so as one engaged in the search for the perfect. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z In tragedy, grossness of language and manners had less opportunity than in comedy, but political subserviency had freer play. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The passion is ardent, but, on the whole, free from grossness or effeminate sentiment. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I referred him to many classic examples of slenderness, declaring myself more exquisite than his grossness, which amused him. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The importance his wealth conferred on him had encouraged this defect: he talked to most people, even to ladies, with a plainness which verged on cynicism and grossness. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The very name of the place might have reminded thee of the grossness of that assertion! An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... 2011-12-24T03:08:05.883Z Back of all the gorgeousness and the glitter and the music and the sacrament waited the hideous profanation, the grossness, the violation of all that was precious and secret and holy. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The lady became enthusiastic; she professed for me a profound and sincere admiration, and despised for their grossness all those at the table who were served with more solid nutriment. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z How much less can a man, by an act of the will, make all things new, and transfer the heart from the grossness of creature love to the purity of supreme love to God. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z "Please, monsieur, do not scream so!" cried the young woman, not thinking of the grossness of the insults heaped upon her, but fearing that Frederick and David might be awakened by his loud talk. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z What is urged in extenuation of the grossness of the Scripture is really applicable all round—to its mythology, its legends, its religion, its philosophy, its ethics, and its poetry. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z At religious revivals and camp-meetings and crusades, no less than at revels, the aftermath is apt to be grossness. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Yet Claire's restless yearning lacked the homely grossness of her mother's; it reflected a finer flash; it was not all cut from one piece; it had its subtlety, its enthusiasm, even its justification. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It was Janey who led him from the grossness of earth into the spiritual world, something that Lossie, with all her loveliness, could not do. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z More than once he contradicted Miss Angela flatly, instantly trying to redeem the grossness by laughing loudly and crying, "Excuse my frankness—no offence—only Archie's way!" In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z It is affection mixed with admiration, and purified from all its grossness. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z His vocabulary grew in grossness, of course, after the King's execution and the declaration of war, but from the first it was ribaldry and abuse. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z She is very particular as to what she has to eat, but the grossness of men, as she calls it, offends her seriously. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Almost imperceptibly at first his degeneration begins; his handsome figure shows a touch of grossness; the refinement in his face becomes blurred; drinking ceases to be a pleasure, and becomes a habit. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Lord Canterville looked at him from head to foot, exhaling with great promptitude an air of cheerful resignation to a form of grossness threatening to become common. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z He is a boor whose grossness is only partly concealed. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z He passes over four-fifths of the passages in the Bible whose grossness he might have cited in support of his objection to its immorality. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z He was a white man; it was an unspeakable relief to dwell upon his fine, athletic symmetry and his strong, brown face with its stamp of semi-ascetic restraint, after the tainted grossness of her persecutor. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z This convict, formerly a non-commissioned officer, envies in secret the elegance of his neighbour, and endeavours to make up for his material grossness by refined conversation. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z By what wide circuit of the spirit I know not, I have returned to find the divine where others have not stirred from grossness. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z She paused a moment, and then, with a sigh, took up the part, and, without looking at Harleigh, who was too much shocked to offer any palliation for this grossness, walked pensively to her chamber. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z If so, the senses, due to their grossness, are liable to error. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z There was in our behaviour no lesser levity; in our mirth no grossness; in our jests and stories no license of the times nor any country coarseness in our speech. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z She did not resent the grossness of the question, neither did she give him a direct answer. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z For the rest, he purified the stage of much of its grossness, and introduced a relative correctness of costume and decoration unknown before. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Ellis gladly courtsied her consent; and the watchful Harleigh, in the alacrity of her acceptance, rejoiced to see a revival to the sentiments of pleasure, which the acrimonious grossness of Mrs Maple had interrupted. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z It had the grossness and ferocity of a lust. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It would seem, moreover, that quite early in life he was not without some attractiveness in person and manners, but you forget that bodily grossness and mental irritability soon made him a repulsive object. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z He thinks that though it may at first “appear to be the effects of grossness of character, it will, upon deeper research, be found to proceed from simplicity and innocence.” Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England 2011-08-08T02:00:19.693Z One presents all the grossness and belittling aspect of money-getting, the other the graces, liberality, and ennobling appearance of culture and refinement. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z This speech, notwithstanding its grossness, surprised from Ellis an exclamation, 'Does not Mrs Maple, then, expect me?' The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z I said, 'Here he will meet the world in all its grossness, and he will succumb to it, as a thousand others have done. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z She had worshiped the strength of Noll; she was in danger of discovering that at too close range, that strength became grossness. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The physique predominates in all his pictures, and not only to grossness, even to ferocity. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z In that emaciated face, purified by disease from its former grossness, few would have recognised ‘our Sally.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z This precludes the possibility of Secularism being charged either with conscious grossness or intentional sin. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z Whatever of vulgarity or of grossness there might be in the play itself, or in the Dance of the Seven Veils, was purged away by the single fact that all the performers were puppets. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Now and again, at rare and memorable intervals, the grossness of this tabernacle wherein the soul is encased is pierced by sound. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The moonlight was upon them, and the silvery radiance that made the girl's beauty more apparent seemed to emphasise the grossness of her companion. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The grossness and blasphemy are largely barred, while the expletives that technically may not be swearing at all, being used for raciness, vigor and emphasis, have increased one hundred fold. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z The question of verbal indecency or grossness has really very little to do with the matter. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Shall I advise them to quit their songs for the grossnesses sung by the wild portion of the students at Cambridge and Oxford? The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z The mixture of refinement and barbarism, of gallantry and grossness, which this people exhibits on all occasions, shows how young it still is in civilisation. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The recollection of Chrysis passed before his memory like a vision of grossness. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z But it has been subsequently discovered that this definition was too narrow to comprehend the multiform shapes which allegory assumes, either in the subtility or the grossness of its nature. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Yet there was more of grossness and licentiousness in the expression of his tenets, than in the tenets themselves. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z “Extremes meet;” and accordingly, one of the most unequivocal evidences we have to offer, of the surpassing refinement of the age in which we live, consists in these displays of the most surpassing grossness. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z “He needs a wife,” say the good women who were born and bred in these opinions and do not suspect their grossness. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Such danger as it harbors has no relation to grossness. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Yet in all the unfettered invention and nudity of style, there was no grossness in the temper, and less in the habits, of the poet. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z And will not the number, if not the grossness of faults, in this infinite space, increase with the number of virtues? The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z It is the blending of so many elements—the interweaving of tragedy and comedy, satire and pathos, grossness and sentiment, in a style of unadorned sincerity, that places Masuccio high among novelists. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He adapted the ancient satires of the Tuscan and Oscan stage to the closet, by refining their grossness, softening their asperity, and introducing railleries borrowed from the Greek poets, with whom he was familiar. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The tone of his morality is healthy, and his language, though not aiming at refinement, is remarkably free from intentional grossness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z It is chiefly a compilation from an early French tract under a similar title, but which is far more remarkable for its grossness. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z For there is no Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The instincts of the people are pure, and their utterances of affection are singularly free from grossness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The popularity and frequent repetition of the Mimes came gradually to purify their grossness; and the writers of them, at length, were not contented merely with the fame of amusing the Roman populace by ribaldry. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Though frequently censured for its occasional grossness of idea and expression, it soon attained a wide popularity, and within a very few years passed through several editions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The various stages of imperfection were ascribed to the grossness of various bodies, which weighted and smothered the spark of divinity that animated them. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Hence, although on a lower plane and interpreted with a less transmuting intensity of insight and emphasis, the snarling or jovial grossness of the peasants of Adrian Brauwer and the best of his Dutch compeers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Pantagruel's "more than frankness, its ebullition of grossness ... is either the merest lunacy, or else it is sublime." Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z It is of the earth, earthy; and there is a bucolic grossness about the lips the very antithesis to the pleasing. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z One comedy in which Dryden, trusting too confidently to this last element of success, pushed grossness to the utmost conceivable limit, was hissed off the stage. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z But in this play Etheredge first shows himself a new power in literature; he has nothing of the rudeness of his predecessors or the grossness of his contemporaries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Moreover, there is always a danger that a subject, in itself so delicate, should not be quite delicately handled, and indeed that it should be treated with indelicacy and grossness. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z It unconsciously invested the love-scenes with an air of unreality and grossness. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z If a man feels the need of interlarding his conversation with obscenity and grossness, we say he may not compel us to listen to him. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z I exclaimed, stung to quite a loud exclamation by the grossness of this injustice. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z There is certainly no grossness in the words of Mr. Thomas Little, but there is considerable warmth in his ideas—and indeed what could be more natural? Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Our translations are literal to baldness; the only liberty we have taken is in softening down the exceeding directness and grossness of some portions. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z Providing your lordship can away with his grossness, and resist the attacks he is sure to make upon your purse," said Shakespeare, "you will be amused with him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Even to Madge one could hardly have committed the grossness and superfluity of saying that one was sorry; what then of Julia? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z So far as they could help themselves, these shameless dramatists left no word unsaid that could increase the strife of tongues and raise a smile at the energy or possibly the grossness of the jargon. A Cursory History of Swearing The justification lies in the vast gulf which separates the remote, ineffable, and inconceivable purity of God from the feebleness and grossness of man. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Finding that this pandering to the curiosity of a certain class of whites brings them in money, the Chinamen give them all the grossness they are willing to pay for. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands There is too much pain attendant upon grossness to justify the boast of ease; and too much effort in asceticism to admit of the grace of simplicity. How to Observe Morals and Manners But the vices of Louis the Fifteenth were marked by a grossness which degraded them in the eye even of popular indulgence, and prepared the nation for the overthrow of the monarchy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 In spite of the society, the question of swearing and its prevalent grossness seems to have attracted the attention of the civil courts of law at this time. A Cursory History of Swearing Pure from all grossness of myth, the Persian god of light came as the mediator and comforter, to soothe the poor and broken-hearted, and give the cleansing of the mystic blood. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He became aware of grossness in his eyes and lips and bearing. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath When, free from the grossness of self-indulgence, and from the constraint of self-denial, every one spontaneously thinks more of his neighbour than of himself, the world will witness, at last, the perfection of manners. How to Observe Morals and Manners Amongst the dissipated revellers who figured in this saturnalia, the Chourineur remarked two couples who obtained the most overwhelming applause, from the revolting grossness of their attitudes, their gesticulations, and their language. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 They did not seek out and expose to public view the grossness and unpleasantness of life. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 In this fashion Plutarch and his school strove to reconcile a rational faith with the grossness of superstition, to save the holiness of God and the glory of Homer. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Like the Tongans, whom they closely resemble, they are generally tall and shapely, with full rounded faces and limbs, but without that grossness and laxity of fibre common in the Tahitians. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II For the delicately sinister subtlety was remote from his understanding, was a subtlety that no man's face can show, capable as it is of a grossness and corruption merely animal by contrast; open and obvious. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The Angel of Light lived on the essence of all that was beautiful, altogether unalloyed by the grossness of the earth. Ayala's Angel As the madness of Don Quixote is humanized by his natural intelligence and courage, so the grossness and credulity of Sancho are relieved by his homely wit. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Seneca, indeed, poured contempt on the grossness of myth in a lost treatise on superstition;2070 and he had no liking for the external rites of worship. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius No sarcasm, no grossness, no violence of any kind, disturbs the calm artistic seriousness, the sweet painstaking curiosity of his mental mood. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second In extensive travel and experience, the author has learned that it is not always in semi-barbarous countries that grossness and indecency will be found most to prevail. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia As may be seen, many of these subjects, if approached in a flippant way, might easily lend themselves to grossness and scandal; but such is not the Spanish spirit. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Faith delivers us from grossness of spirit, from lethargy, earthliness, stupor. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews In this treatise we see the new theology wrestling in a hopeless struggle to unite the thought of Pythagoras and Plato with the grossness of Egyptian myth. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius But I scarce had known, at this point, what grossness or what fineness of material correspondence to forecast. The Sacred Fount With an incredible grossness, and want of common decency, he then went into certain details of his wife’s physical qualities that had disgusted him and turned him against her. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The occasional grossness is due to an absence of refinement of taste rather than to an obliquity of moral sentiment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Let him walk down Ratcliffe-highway or any other spot where vice loses all its charms by appearing in all its grossness. The Night Side of London The masses around him remained in their grossness and darkness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius They relieve the grossness of the material enjoyments; they poetize the meal; and if you have no women at table, mon cher, be sure to have flowers: not that I object to both together. That Boy Of Norcott's This same intellectual grossness is certainly very striking; the scene of Richard's wooing of Lady Ann is a capital specimen of it. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. In a certain sense all sex has an element of grossness which inspires repugnance. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Indeed it is this high pedestal of grossness, lying, and falsity makes him great; no small man would dare to erect it; Falstaff dares, for he is unashamed. A Novelist on Novels The opinion of the powerful and enlightened class, with rare exceptions, made no effort to purify and humanise the grossness of the masses. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Again, I know I am exhibiting my mental grossness. Essays in Radical Empiricism These go far to cover and cure the grossness of their lives. My First Summer in the Sierra In Egyptian eyes their union was regarded as a marriage, and the relations of these two never assumed the grossness and voluptuousness that were later exhibited by Antony and Cleopatra. Greek Women His grossness was the heritage of his time. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 How could a Platonist of the second century, we may ask, holding such a spiritual creed, reconcile himself to Greek mythology, nay, to all the mythologies, with all the selfish grossness of their ritual? Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Their study was to outvie each other in the grossness, and insincerity of their flattery. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition As the two extremes of exquisite delicacy, of dainty elegance, and, on the other hand, of thick-witted grossness and clumsiness, stand the fairy tribe and the group of Athenian handicraftsmen. Folk-lore of Shakespeare How wretched is the position she has put herself in; for if the man she married be naturally a low man, he will probably drag her to his level by the “grossness of his nature.” Maids Wives and Bachelors Hers is a vulgar nature, but she does not offend delicate ears by the grossness of her utterance. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 He was repelled by the grossness of bloody sacrifices, however consecrated by immemorial use. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius While the paiderastia of the Greeks was sinking into grossness, effeminacy, and �sthetic prettiness, the moral instincts of humanity began to assert themselves in earnest. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Each one was like the blooming of some human soul freed from the grossness of the flesh. The Portal of Dreams The taint of original sin is deepened by the grossness of the material out of which man's earthly tabernacle is made. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Well, if the world must have it so, Woman can only stand and endure; Ever the grossness of all that is gross Rises the tyrant of all that is pure. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 And the reign of such men as Caligula, Nero, and Domitian not only stimulated the grossness of self-indulgence, but superadded the treachery and servility of cowardice. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The passion which grovels in the filth of sensual grossness may be transformed into a glorious enthusiasm, a winged splendour, capable of soaring to the contemplation of eternal verities. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion A sardonic humor, sometimes smudged with “that touch of grossness in our English race,” characterizes many of the backwoods place-names. Our Southern Highlanders “Mr. Who?” gasped a big voice, struggling out from smothered depths of grossness. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 He has lifted art out of its vulgarity and grossness. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians There was much selfishness and grossness, no doubt, in all this civic life. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius A Frenchman, in short, writes for men, an Englishman rather for drawing-room ladies, who tolerate grossness only in the theatres and the columns of the newspapers. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages In Canada at least, vice could not boast that it had lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 It cannot away with his peasant morality—moralizing rather—his provincialism, and the grossness of his method. Pot-Boilers We may be accused of grossness, but not of flimsiness; of extravagance, but not of affectation; of want of art and refinement, but not of a want of truth and nature. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The selfishness and grossness of the upstart is naked and not ashamed, or we might almost say, it glories in its shame. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The general plan of structure corresponds very well with Fries' idea of his genus Tilmadoche, although the present species would seem, by very grossness, strangely out of place with the tilmadoches. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species His gentleness, his brusqueness, his egotism, his humility, his grossness, his finer nature, his crudeness, his eloquence, are all here. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Already she has set her hand to the task of civilizing, that is to say Europeanizing, China—just at the moment when Europe is coming to loathe her own grossness. Pot-Boilers It at the same time tended to wean the mind from the grossness of sense, and a particle of its divine flame was lent to brighten and purify the lamp of love! Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He has written one of the keenest satires ever penned on the vulgarity of mere wealth, its absurd affectations, its vanity, its grossness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Marble, paint, and language, the pen, the needle, and the brush, all have their grossnesses, their ineffable impotences, their hours, if I may so express myself, of insubordination. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It seemed a grossness of which I was incapable to break up her reverie by speech. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) He had an air of massive jollity that well became him; grossness and geniality sat upon his features; and along with his manners, he had laid aside his sly and sinister expression. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) But the grossness of the error becomes incomprehensible as well as unpardonable, when we look to what level of degradation the human intellect has sunk at this instant in Italy. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It has been thought a satire on the insolence and grossness of Pallas and the freedmen of the Claudian régime which Nero detested, to amuse him with all their vulgar absurdities. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius They were then such exuberant wits, that they could make even ribaldry and grossness witty. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Why should I go on to reproduce his grossness and trivialities? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Behind his impudent servility, behind the devotion which, with indelicate delicacy, he still forced on her attention, she divined the grossness of his nature. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The Early English capital is, therefore, a barbarism of triple grossness, and degrades the style in which it is found, otherwise very noble, to one of second-rate order. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Its very grossness was a stimulant to appetites jaded with every diabolical refinement of vicious ingenuity. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His temper had become brutal, and he had gradually contracted a ferocity and grossness in his manners, which seem by no means to have been indicated in his purer days. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Alas, the grossness of the commercial classes, the brutality of the tired business man! Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story He was not a man to rise above his age, and it would be charitable to ascribe a portion of his grossness to it. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Do not insult calamity: It is a barb'rous grossness, to lay on The weight of scorn, where heavy misery Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order But the scene soon changed to a revel, where the roses and music hardly veiled the grossness of excess. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Fletcher is a true poet; and the graceful sentiment, though mixed with a coarse alloy, still repels that unmitigated grossness which, according to Burke's famous aphorism, is responsible for half the evil of vice. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) There was no taint of grossness or of luxury in the face, but rather a strength, an intellectual force, a firm lucidity of thought. The Thread of Gold Yet like almost everything that Swift wrote, it is deformed by grossness of expression, and in the latter portion by a malignant contempt for human nature which betrays a diseased imagination. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) He was not specially troubled about the physical welfare or the morals of the average citizen, but the city's grossness, its willingness to perpetuate ugly forms, rasped him, angered him. Money Magic A Novel The Filipino Indian is the embryo of nature and the offspring of grossness. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The step that was meant to soften its grossness has resulted in its moral degradation. Five Stages of Greek Religion But it may however be more reasonably urged that there are particular tenets both in honour and religion, which it is the grossness of folly not to question. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare In his Tales he follows Prior in grossness, while inferior to him in art. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The age was that of Louis XV, of Lord Sandwich, of Augustus the Strong: in it even a Burke had persuaded himself that "vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 It was hard to shake the feeling of grossness, though. Little Brother This doctrine, stripped of much of its grossness, is reproduced in the New Testament. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" It was by their comparative grossness that they could somehow make shift. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II I find in the writings of almost all women on sex-subjects, not to speak of popular novels, an insistence on men's grossness, with a great deal in contrast about the soulful character of woman's love. The Truth About Woman Men will, on the whole, continue to prefer one partner, and friendship will refine the grossness of sense. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Legality soon passes into civility, according to the saying that vice loses half its evil when it loses its grossness. Bunyan She could not think that the other Dictator, with all his stupidity and grossness, was one-half as wicked as he. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America He insists repeatedly, until at last the Badger, insulted by this grossness, and suffocated by the odour, decides to move elsewhere and hollow a fresh palace. The Industries of Animals There is not the same grossness of conversation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. Fielding and Smollett and Stern helped to build up the English novel, but the stories they tell speak of the grossness of their time in language that is unmistakable. The Meaning of Evolution This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Vice loses all its grossness, and becomes intensely entertaining. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The grossness of his egotism reminds me of the story told of King James, whom the English got rid of in 1689. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess There was a hint of grossness about the fellow which repelled the Colonel, who was of an ascetic type; besides, he was badly and carelessly dressed, and Challoner was fastidious in such matters. Blake's Burden The absolute purity of his mind, his utter freedom from grossness, shows clearly in his account of the first really semi-civilized people he had ever seen. The Meaning of Evolution It is a confined mode of cookery, and the meat therefore is not at all purified of its grossness. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families She wanted to convey certain things quite clearly but without grossness. Daisy's Aunt Certain forms of clumsiness, grossness, made the mother's eyes glow with curious rage. The Rainbow The people who encourage them must be sunk very deep in intellectual grossness, and have totally lost sight of all decency. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton But if he made no friends, he at least made no enemies; he was always friendly and good-tempered, and he was preserved by his solitariness from all grossness and evil. Beside Still Waters Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true: For envy'd wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. Practical Education, Volume II To Ransome's senses it was as if the faint, the delicate colors of the place gave a more frightful grossness and pungency to its smell. The Combined Maze They pandered to the passions of the multitude by affecting grossness and vulgarity in person, and language, and manners; by clamoring for the division of property, and for the death of the king. Madame Roland, Makers of History But, say you, we would not have woman exposed to the grossness and vulgarity of public life, or encounter what she must at the polls. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature I have seen them; large persons, both male and female, red as beef, their grossness illuminated with diamonds of royalty, their dwelling a magazine from the Rue de la Paix. Rosin the Beau Newly corrected and purged, from all grossness in phrase and matter. The Library of William Congreve It was merely passion, she felt, for she recognised that there was a strain of grossness in him. Hawtrey's Deputy Plato, then, was partially inspired, and clouded the heavenly beam with the remaining grossnesses of the natural sense. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles “I cannot write such things,” exclaimed the haughty Sarah, alluding to the grossness of the language attributed to her, adding, “Won’t your Majesty give me leave to tell it you?” Political Women, Vol. 2 With all their grossness and crudity, these shrines reveal a wealth of imagination and an artistic inventiveness, which furnish object-lessons to the most cultivated Occidental mind. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Some sense of grossness in him for the first time seared across her brain. Brand Blotters This gospel of exalting animal strength developed a living passion for tyranny and grossness. The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia The fire that on the Magi's altars glowed Spake to his soul in symbols and expressed The immortal purity that without rest Strives with the mortal grossness whose abode Is in the heart. Pan and Æolus: Poems But any suggestion of material grossness was contradicted by the brightness of his rather pale-blue eyes, by his alertness of manner, and by his ready, whimsical humour. The Wonder Outrageous grossness—with its ironical, beautiful blasphemy against the great mother's amazing tricks—is an intellectual and spiritual thing, worthy of all noble souls. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He had been told by ignorant companions, by ignorant servants, and, quite likely, by books, whose grossness would have been harmless but for the child's piteous ignorance. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature To open his book�though the steam of the grossness of it rises to Heaven�is to touch the divine fingers�the fingers that heal the world. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions This illusion of disembodiment is very exhilarating, while immersion in the flesh and confinement to some organ gives a tone of grossness and selfishness to our consciousness. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Then, with the organs of their resurrection-bodies ennobled, etherealised, purified from all the grossness of earth, they shall “behold the King in his beauty.” Memories of Bethany The first of these is that deep and curious satisfaction which we derive from the exhibition in art of the essential grossness and unscrupulousness of life. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Harboro thought of inviting Peterson over to the house; but he fancied Sylvia wouldn’t like it; and besides, the man’s grossness was there, more patent than ever, and it stood between them. Children of the Desert In the famous argument between the Lady and her Tempter, in Comus, we have an exquisite example of the sweet, grave refinement of virginal taste which shuns grossness as "a false note." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Sir Arthur Sullivan relates an anecdote which shows that Rossini was conscious of his grossness. The Merry-Go-Round The pig is remarkably intelligent and brave,--but he's gross; and grossness delays one's achievement, it takes so much time. This Simian World A similar censure could be spoken regarding the adventure in the tavern,77 where the author hesitates on the edge of grossness. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century His spirit writhed like a fine flame, trammelled and tortured by the grossness of the stuff it kindled, and the more it writhed the more he piled on the paragraphs and columns. The Creators A Comedy It applies, above all, to the interpreters of Sex, who, in their conventional grossness, as well as in their conventional discretion, bury such Ostrich heads in the sand! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions She recognized that there was a strain of grossness in him. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Marple’s male friends were, for the most part, characterized by a certain grossness and sensuality; in their amusements at games of chance one or two had displayed an open avarice. The Long Portage He was a young man of eighteen, and he had not yet become familiar with the grossness and selfishness of this calculating world. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer To quote an expression from Tennyson, I may say that if it were the best society in the world, the grossness of some natures in it would have weight to drag it down. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs. Picture and Text 1893 He continued, indeed, his grossness and frivolity, but the wildest and fiercest schemes chased each other through his melodramatic brain. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 We turn away our eyes with disgust from open immodesty: but even this is less mischievous than that more measured style, which excites impure images, without shocking us by the grossnesses of the language. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. The grossness of the flesh stifles and kills the subtle workings of the spirit. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath Those who have read Shakespeare only, complain of occasional grossness in his plays; but compare him with his contemporaries, and the inevitable conviction, is that of the exquisite purity of his imagination. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Our body will therefore lose its material grossness, roughness of texture, and weight, and will be clothed with the attributes of agility and subtlety. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus These practices imply a grossness of mind that is much at war with the common notion of the gentleness and cultivation of the Norman nobles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Corpulent even to grossness, he formed a curious contrast to the small and wasted forms of the two presidents elect, who sat at his side. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy In the blinding glare it was outlined with a horrid clearness; in its grossness and bestial hatred, less human than demoniacal. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Alas! in this our day, decency of manners is preserved at the expense of morality of heart, and delicacies for vice are allowed, whilst grossness against it is hypocritically, or at least morbidly, condemned. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Vice has preserved all its evil by preserving all its grossness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Again and again has religious enthusiasm pictured a life to be eliminated from the grossness and imperfections of our material existence. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch It aims at mirth and laughter for their own sakes, without any purpose of edification; it had, like the fabliau, the merit of brevity, and not infrequently the fault of unabashed grossness. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The bulk of the Chaldean nation for a long time remained Turanian, and the materialistic grossness of the original Shumiro-Accadian religion greatly fostered its idolatrous tendencies. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria As to the grossness of the abuse—she calls him “gross and foolish” a few lines below. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Where more than the head is represented, license is given to a certain grossness of idea; but this is not a general characteristic. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Because no sin, no grossness has ever shut your ears to all but earthly sounds. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play The indecencies in Chaucer and Shakespeare are to be attributed to the grossness of their times. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism I commenced to examine the nature of this Intelligence freed as it is from all material grossness and yet in a certain way, linked to the material world. Mystics and Saints of Islam The grossness of his comedies rivalled that of Wycherley himself. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 However profligate the people might have been, they were not contented with grossness unless seasoned with wit. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Like that of Solomon, we deny our hearts nothing they desire, except the grossness of it restrain us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He had been entertained by Pope at his table, where he talked with so much grossness, that Mrs. Pope was driven from the room. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II In Cairo, as elsewhere in Egypt, the wretchedness and grossness of the poorer-class dwellings are perhaps even more shocking than in the other Eastern lands. The New World of Islam The Comedy of the Restoration borrowed everything from the contemporary Comedy of France save the poetry, the delicacy, and good taste which there veiled its grossness. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Mediæval art in colored glass, carving, sculpture, and pictures reveals the grossness and crass simplicity of the mediæval imagination, but also its childish originality and directness. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals If this grossness and harshness should, after all, be his real life! Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The beauties of this poem are well known; its chief 339fault is the grossness of its images. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The grossness of this demand, which proceeded even so far as pinching to elicit a cry, is beyond easy credit to men of their time. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 He passes his rivals in the grossness of his comedies, he flings himself recklessly into the evil about him because it is the fashion and because it pays. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Mediæval punishments for criminals, leaving out of account heretics and witches, bore witness to the grossness, obscenity, inhumanity, and ferocity of the mores of that age. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Naples, city of glaring contrasts—heaven of rascality, hell of horses, unrivaled all the western world over for natural beauty, for spiritual and moral grossness! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance But no veil shrouded the degrading grossness of the Court of James. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The curves of her sloping neck were perfect and carried not a wave-line of grossness. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills They who unitedly move themselves away from grossness and from earth, toward the throne of crystaline and the pavement golden, are, indeed, true lovers. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage All the grossness, superstition, and bad taste of the age were put into them. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It had been for her, innocent of all grossness, or suggestion of degradation, fair and lovely and natural, revelation of highest and most enchanting secrets. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It was a relief to turn from such grossness to its antithesis in the shape of two American ladies who sat near us. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes It has all the humor of Rabelais with no touch of the Touraine grossness. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Society had all the grossness without much of the wit which belonged to the days of the Restoration. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II When we do read of any kind of grossness in worship or the accompanying festivities, it is almost always in the case of some rite which is not among those in the Fasti. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Perhaps my personal peculiarities confer on me unusually acute perception of the inherent grossness of the human comedy. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance His high and broad brow arched over a straight nose, while his lips had nothing of that vulgar grossness which gives so sensual an expression to his countrymen. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver The female convict ships continued under the same system of management, until some flagrant instances induced the Board of Admiralty to check the grossness of vice. The History of Tasmania , Volume II On great wholesome minds the grossness left no stain, and the interest of Diderot’s singularities worked as a stimulus to a happier originality in men of more disciplined endowments. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The revulsion of feeling which followed the recognition of the grossness of the mistake I had made had no doubt the effect of greatly intensifying my emotions. A Positive Romance 1898 Still there was no trace of grossness in their form or expression. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Italy, tired of the avarice and the grossness of the Austrians, pants for the moment of withdrawing from their sovereignty. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world. Personality in Literature A subject which easily takes on an air of grossness, and which Diderot sometimes handled very grossly indeed, is introduced with an idyllic grace that to the pure will hardly be other than pure. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. His grossness is an essential component in his mental fabric, an element in whose absence he would be not Rabelais but somebody else. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Part of this she told him, qualifying the grossness of the reality by her own shrewd humor; part he read between the lines of the autobiography. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Asia, as an anonymous writer has recently put it, is growing crude, vulgar, and materialistic; Europe, on the other hand, is growing to loathe its own past grossness. The Task of Social Hygiene I might have known that one of your kind could not rise above the grossness in you. Tess of the Storm Country Had Aurelian but looked into the streets of Rome, he could not but have seen the grossness of the lie that has been palmed upon his too willing ear. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century I did not know then the weakness, and frailty, and grossness of the human clay. Theft A Play In Four Acts Was her soul, its purity and beauty symbolized by her very dress, to be united to that other soul in its grossness and deformity? At the Time Appointed The three novels, which comprised the series, were interesting and free from the taint of grossness and immorality, so erroneously deemed essential when describing the habits and customs of the poorer classes. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 The grossness and multitude of Aristotle and Varro's books were both a prejudice to the authors, and an hindrance to learning, and an occasion of the greatest part of them being lost. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The Jolly Beggars, unpleasant as from its grossness it is, shows the presence of this vein in a very high degree, seeing that from materials so unpromising he could make so much. Robert Burns There was a suggestion of grossness in the face of Major Kinnaird’s guest, which had certainly not been a characteristic of Weston the packer. The Gold Trail In some countries immorality is more refined indeed; and when manners lose their grossness, they are stripped apparently of half their vice. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 A grossness of innocence was her new assumption. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House They, indeed, pushed their indelicacy to the verge of grossness, and seemed rather to seek than to avoid scenes, which a modern would blush to describe. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Among Dumas's dramas, the writer regards Caligula as the best in spite of its grossness. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 It was, no doubt, his full intent to make her his in all the grossness of the fact, but not until he had got rid of Amilcare, or induced Amilcare to get rid of himself. Little Novels of Italy I make no apology to the spiritually minded, to whom this statement must be a revelation of grossness. The Promised Land Then the child will be all gentle, all tender and tender-radiant, always enfolded with gentleness and forbearance, always shielded from grossness or pain or roughness. Fantasia of the Unconscious Of the following specimens the grossness and malignity are extreme; yet they were employed by the first scholars in Europe. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 But for all that I have found in his work a trace of the tonic morality which inheres in Molière, for example, also a Parisian by birth, and also in Rabelais, despite his disguising grossness. Ten Tales It was after a quarrel with Johannes over some little grossness of no consequence that she walked forth from the house and down towards the spruit. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Whatever indelicacy attaches in modern times to some of the gestures and contortions of the hula dancers, the old-time hula songs in large measure were untainted with grossness. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The whole literature of the Novella has the attraction of graceful naughtiness in which vice, as Burke put it, loses half its evil by losing all its grossness. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 Their comedies are offensive by the grossness of their buffooneries. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 "I cannot so suddenly descend to the actual, or come in so quick contact with the grossness of earth after the god-like sublimity I have been contemplating." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems On riding into the Forester's court-yard, among several other open carriages, he observed one lined with celestial blue, which, with a strange grossness of taste, exhibited upon the cushions a medley of hams, sausages, &c. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The very grossness of the hog enables him becomingly to fill the role of the Beast as a foil to Pele, the Beauty. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula To the grossness of Biddy's misconduct she needn't refer, nor to the golden opportunity that young woman had forfeited by her odious treatment of Mr. Grindon. The Tragic Muse He flatters each with the same assiduity and grossness, with the result that they all become his useful allies. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions It is upon the whole the cleverest comedy in the English language, the fullest of wit and at the same time the most free from grossness. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 But though there may be less grossness in the sensuality of to-day, the moral turpitude of men may be even greater than that of ancient times. Plain Facts for Old and Young Let thy lightnings fly: When this poem 367 first came into the author's hands, though attracted by its classic form and vigorous style, he could not avoid being repelled by an evident grossness. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula "Nicholas Dormer," this personage remarked at last, "for grossness of immorality I think I've never seen your equal." The Tragic Muse O thou vain glory of the human powers, How little green upon thy summit lingers, If 't be not followed by an age of grossness! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 She had once deluded herself with the thought that a life of crime might lose at least half of its evil by losing all of its grossness. Phantom Wires A Novel There would be less animal love, but more spiritual communion; less grossness, more purity; less development of the animal, and a more fruitful soil for the culture of virtue, holiness, and all the Christian graces. Plain Facts for Old and Young In this latter respect it is evidently superior to the works of the ancients, the moral of which is frequently tainted by the grossness of their mythology. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies The sentimental young lady, who would recoil from the grossness of the Deist, is attracted by the poetry of Pantheism. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity The worthy bishop soon grew thoroughly disgusted with Vendôme, who, high as he was in station, displayed a shameless grossness of manner which was more than the pious churchman could endure. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII As he sat squatted there by the fire Garman's figure gave an impression of squatness and of grossness in proportions and flesh. The Plunderer The study of the natural sciences is a most valuable means of elevating the mind above grossness and sensuality. Plain Facts for Old and Young But there can be no apology for his dealing with serious subjects in that vein of sarcasm which reminds us of the grossness of the coarser brood of infidels. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology From the grossness of its superstitions we may infer the ignorance of an age; but never should pronounce concerning the folly of an individual, from his admitting popular errors, consecrated by the appearance of religion. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. In harmony with the realistic instincts of the nation, everything is dramatically, very humanly conceived; at times, indeed, the personages of the Nativity scenes quite lose their sacred character, and the treatment degenerates into grossness. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan But all the earnest conservative theologians yet cling to it in its unmitigated grossness, with unrelaxing severity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life To watch his activities was to marvel that he still retained the grossness of figure he so deplored. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Nothing that was exquisite upon earth was unrepresented; but the grossness and the imperfection which will cleave to every thing earthly, was left out. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Expurgated of much grossness and profanity, the discursive talk, in this hiding place of criminals, may be partially reproduced as follows. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Massinger's Bondman, Pepys's ideal of merit in drama, has little of the excessive grossness of the Custom of the Country. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sometimes they were superstitiously credited in all their grossness with full assent of soul. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Byron was under no delusion as to the grossness of Don Juan. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Religion without business tends to dreamy, purposeless moral enervation; business without ideal ends and aims to grossness and materialism. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Even into his voice crept that grossness which before had seemed something of the body alone. Never-Fail Blake What say you to a series of poems in your own original way, steeped from end to end in Scottish superstition, but purified from its grossness by your own genius and taste? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century But among the more ignorant papal multitudes the mediaval superstition holds its place still in all its virulence and grossness. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 The very grossness of the imposition seemed to secure its success, and the absurdity of the accusation to establish the verity of the charge. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Pardon my grossness;—a yawn in the presence of a lady, and I a Russian gentleman! The President A novel The grossness of the absurdity flashed upon her, and she felt as if another touch must bring the tears. A Chance Acquaintance Then came the 15 They are defended in all their literal grossness in the two following works, both recent publications. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Nay, after death, the traces it retains Of fleshly grossness, and corporeal stains, Since much must needs by long concretion grow Inherent. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Much has been said and written about the grossness of this vice, its baneful effects and consequences, to which it were useless here to refer. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals How to explain the medieval barbarism and anarchy save by the grossness and ignorance of the conquerors? Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) The melodies could not be stained, but the words had degenerated until they had lost most of whatever imaginative quality they had possessed, and had acquired instead only grossness. Robert Burns How To Know Him And, Thirdly, the grossness of self-love, in preferring of present goods the vulgar and the sensible, to the refined and more exquisitely satisfactory. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society The man was a profound, non-thinking egotist, the adventurer pure and simple, whose mentality never rose above grossness of one sort and another, in spite of a certain outward polish. The Hidden Places There is seldom, if ever, any grossness in these spontaneous songs of the people—never indecency or double meaning. Spanish Life in Town and Country Walpole compares the age of Charles II. to that of Aristophanes—'which called its own grossness polite.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 His jests are pointed, but without any of the grossness and vulgarity of the old Attic comedy. On the Sublime His charity must partake of the contraction and grossness of his self-love. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society All coarseness, grossness, or rudeness of character, is unseemly. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister She saw his face flush as he bowed his head in eating; she allowed her fancy to rest in its morbid abhorrence of the act, and in its suspicion of its grossness. The Helpmate The hint of grossness which his figure gave was not borne out by his face. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The original of the photograph over which we had pored that morning was standing before us in all the grossness of flesh. Berry And Co. But I have had many opportunities of judging of the grossness of their conversation and manners. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters This danger is for her the greater and more insidious, because in her the sensuous, so strongly developed, is refined from p. 24all its grossness by the presence of imagination and thought. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works The grossness of his language at the play-scene, and some lines in the Nunnery-scene, suggest this; and, considering the state of his mind, there is nothing unnatural in his suffering from such a suspicion. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth But this, the religion of the truly wise, born in the sublime East, could find no roothold in Mike Fletcher—that type and epitome of Western grossness and lust of life. Mike Fletcher A Novel "Haven't you an ideal which life, with its cruelties, its grossness, can never touch?" A Comedy of Masks A Novel It was," says he, "permitted to the Jews, as sacrifice was, for the heaviness and grossness of their souls. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Human nature's daily food seems to lose something of its grossness in its snowy setting, and to gain a spiritual savor which finds an outlet in "feasts of reason and flows of soul." The Complete Home The improbabilities in King Lear surely far surpass those of the other great tragedies in number and in grossness. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth A sweet but exasperating changelessness reigned in that drawing-room—that pretty drawing-room where mother and daughter sat in sweet naturalness, removed from the grossness and meanness of life as he knew it. Mike Fletcher A Novel The licentiousness is a 'grand peut-être,' according to the turn of the times being:—the grossness I deny. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals To have alluded to them more familiarly he would have held to be a breach of etiquette of unpardonable grossness. The Voice of the People The affection he expresses for his wife is sometimes almost poetical from its intensity, in spite of the grossness of his language. Records of a Girlhood It is surely a pardonable grossness that we should desire the sweet fresh things to become part of us—like children, who do indeed love flowers, and eat them. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened His fine gentlemen all partake of their parent's grossness and vulgarity; they usually open their dialogue, by complaining of the effects of last night's debauch. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 It has been literally devilish in its grossness and meanness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 He enlarges or diminishes the scale, as he wishes to shew the insignificance or the grossness of our overweening self-love. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution I am not speaking now, understand me, of those unfortunates with whom obesity is a disease, but of those who owe their grossness of outline to gluttony. One Third Off This phenomenon he ascribes to "the clearness and subtilty of the visual spirits, or to the strength, weakness, grossness or turbidity of the organs of vision." Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century There comes with an empty stomach less of grossness and more of abstract reason, and an exaltation which may be all impractical, but which is recklessly acute. A Man and a Woman Henceforward he shrunk and shrivelled by slow degrees, until in the course of time he became so attenuated, that the grossness of human vision could no longer reach him. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Our grossness shall be purged away, and the proud spirit of mammon burned out of us. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two It is enough then to say here that he inherited his father's vices, purged of their vulgarity and grossness, without a single particle of his uncertain and capricious good nature. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two We may felicitate ourselves on having escaped the grossness, without, however, extending too far these self-congratulations. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Dryden's grossness of taste mars his narrative at several points. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century One might paraphrase Burke and say that such wealth as this loses half its evil through losing all its grossness. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Yet I trust that the health of the general body will be improved by it, and purged of the grossness and worldly feeling which have hitherto, I fear, too much characterized it. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two They see eternal punishment in the perception of the sinner that he has forever stunted his soul by his sinfullness and the grossness of his affections. The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers The recent civil dissensions had often violated the urbanity of the court, and a grossness prevailed in conversation which offended the scrupulous. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Leonie shuddered as the veneer of refinement cracked under the strain of the man's rage, showing the brutality and grossness immediately underneath. Leonie of the Jungle Milton, in his letter to Master Hartlib, assails that "scholastic grossness of barbarous ages" from which we nineteenth-century citizens have by no means escaped. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 There is another matter to which some allusion must be made, the grossness of the age, though here again detail is scarcely possible. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London The love of beauty curbed grossness and added distinction. Machiavelli, Volume I Their more curious project was the reform of the style of conversation, to purify its grossness, and invent novel terms for familiar objects. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Had he been hungry he would have somehow thought it an act of criminal grossness to forage for food. Married Life The True Romance The animal-worship reached its utmost pitch of grossness and absurdity when certain individual brute beasts were declared to be incarnate deities, and treated accordingly. Ancient Egypt There is not wit enough in this satire to recompense its grossness. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies If you begin in grossness; if you couple yourself on to one with whom you have taken liberties, infidelity is the natural and just consequence. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Is there an actor on any stage to-day who can portray both the grossness of Falstaff and the subtlety of Iago? Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers A like vein of elaborate innuendo runs through the Canti Carnascialeschi of Florence, proving that however profligate the people might have been, they were not contented with grossness unless seasoned with wit. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Are you a little indulgent, a little cool, a little contemptuous of the grossness of masculine clay, and still willing to tolerate it as part of your bargain? The Real Adventure It is without the grossness characteristic of Mrs. Behn's works, and gives quite a pretty account of the loves of a young French nobleman and an unusually modest young woman named Atlante. A History of English Prose Fiction Mr. Bellingham's smile grew vaguer, and his two hands touched finger-tips in front of his magisterial stomach—an adequate stomach but well on the right side of grossness. Lady Good-for-Nothing Sir Walter Scott makes mention of an elderly lady, who, reading over again certain books she had deemed in her youth to be of a most harmless kind, was shocked at their exceeding grossness. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Yet never at any period did the native Italian masters learn to love ugliness with the devotion that reveals innate grossness. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The unblushing grossness of speech which even the ladies of the party permitted themselves cannot be reproduced in the decorous print of our age. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) He has the fancy of Carew, without his artificiality; he has Carew's sweetness, without his grossness of suggestion. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Perhaps if they had but sounded the "Last Post" at Jimmy's burial, I should have lost sight of its grossness and caught the vision of its glory. Tell England A Study in a Generation Next, Corliss had the physical potency of the hero without the grossness of the brute. A Daughter of the Snows It appears that even practical jokes were not considered in bad taste, but that irreverence and grossness were tabooed as boorish. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Another insists that it is meant to be an ironical reductio ad absurdum of the theory of self-interest, by exhibiting a concrete example of its working in all its grossness. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Speaking in terms in which concreteness verges upon grossness, it may be said that the brain, in so far as its function is concerned, depends upon the stomach. Tragic Sense Of Life When acclimatised in the large towns, the rustic Muse not unfrequently assumes a garb of grossness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The sweet influences of the home deprive even mammon-worship of half its grossness and of some fraction of its evil. Christian Mysticism Do not misjudge the heavy face as a sign of grossness. Certain Success And supposing Numa established their religion, it does not follow that he established what there came to be of grossness in it. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 While others were satisfied with the grossness of a material creed her spirit soared aloft. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century The heavy voice was deadened out of all heat except grossness. Nightfall There would be no edification and little amusement in treating of clumsy deceptions of this kind, where the grossness of the imposture detects itself. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft But neither of you need expect anything,' she says, 'for the wrongs of my sisters have armoured me against the grossness of mere sex appeal.' Somewhere in Red Gap By his mind he belongs to the region of pure mind,—the ethereal state; but the hard necessity of living keeps him down in the world of sense and grossness and struggle. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn We may note, too, that grossness in manners forms a large proportion of the offenses that fanatical reformers foam about. Etiquette Even, strange to say, we find the grossness of bhakti also deliberately embodied in figures of wood and stone. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments It had almost made him proud to belong no longer to his species, to have been brought up for God and carefully purged of all human grossness by a jealously watchful training. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The Case is Altered.—The passion for wealth has worn out much of its grossness in tract of time. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 There was a sort of romance, a purity in his passion that redeemed it from the taint of grossness. The Belfry Besides grossness, there is also the meaner selfishness. Etiquette I appreciate the absurdity, nay, the enormity of the position in all its grossness. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War That the earth, as a planet, is obeying this cosmic law of evolution from grossness to refinement; from crudity to perfection; from the limited to the all-inclusive, is indisputable. Cosmic Consciousness Where the dispensers of the public lash Soft penance give; a letter and a dash— Where Vice reduced in size shrinks to a failing, And loses half her grossness by curtailing. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Before the grossness of this insinuation Mrs. Downey abandoned her policy of silence. The Divine Fire His studies of sensuality, however, are for the most part normal, even in their grossness. The Art of Letters Would swollen fortunes bring congestion of standards and grossness of morals? Andrew the Glad The paintings and statues, all told some classic tale of love, managed, however, with an insidious delicacy; which, while it banished the grossness that might disgust, was the more calculated to excite the imagination. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Perhaps they did not see that the very grossness of the thing proves it to have been designed. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England There was a positive grossness in the idea of unburdening himself in the presence of this incommunicable grief. The Divine Fire The Romans of the decadence had a hideous cant language which fairly matched the grossness of the people, and the Gauls, with their descendants, fairly matched the old conquerors. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour His faults, a certain occasional fierceness and grossness, were the faults that are counted as virtues among navvies and sailors and most primitive men. Robert Browning The grossness of his comedies has banished them from the stage. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature In the comic parts of Whetstone's drama there is all the grossness of Measure for Measure, without any thing that the utmost courtesy of language can call wit or humour. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England His knowledge of his people's grossness of heart and materialism of hope made a real temptation of the suggestion that he should not openly oppose but should accommodate himself to them. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Yet Mrs. Smith loves that child, and gobbles over it, descending to its abysses of grossness. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series There was no grossness about him, no brutality, no abominable vice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 His lyrics are pure and fresh, and his romances, though full of conceits, are pleasant reading, remarkably free from grossness. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature |
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