| 单词 | splenetic |
| 例句 | Parlá is loose with his fields of color, but never splenetic. What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins Learned from Graffiti 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Is it – as nay-sayers believe – a savage, uncontrolled and splenetic attack on modern British life, culture, mores and tropes? Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z As for the Rev Crabbe, his splenetic lines, written at the height of high society's ruromania, won him an audience with the Prince of Wales. Tom Pow's poetry keeps Dying Villages alive 2010-05-28T08:57:00Z But this spare but choice ensemble listens as well as it talks, and every splenetic speech, no matter how self-contained, still feels like part of a vital dialogue. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit’ Blends Rage With Gallows Humor 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Powell’s father was a splenetic figure, given to outbursts of rage. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z There followed an action role in 2011’s X-Men: First Class and then, in 2012, she starred as Tiffany Maxwell, a splenetic young widow reluctantly falling for an equally damaged Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z In the late ’70s, he began self-releasing a series of splenetic improvisations that suggested the blues broken into bits following a violent car crash. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Sayle collects himself, musters his rage, and an hour of mostly splenetic and often splendid comedy ensues. Alexei Sayle – review 2013-01-24T17:46:05Z It’s a look — for starters — at a splenetic young writer who, during a stay in the country, waits for his publisher to weigh in on his unfortunately titled second novel “Club Sandwich.” ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z A splenetic disposition can, of course, be a disadvantage when it comes to the fatherly tasks of dealing with headmasters and fellow parents of students. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z In the decade after his resignation, when those portrayals took hold, until today, the very mention of Nixon can cause splenetic outbursts from liberals who lived through his long career. Cranky Guy: Nixon's Still the One 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z That’s where my acquaintance comes from, and I confess that I feared a whole evening of Mr. Black’s splenetic seething might be a little toxic. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z On the other, it's splenetically funny enough that such concerns are usually forgotten. Rhod Gilbert - review 2011-01-07T22:00:01Z Now it’s a nonstop, splenetic opinion and anger machine. Review: ‘Murphy Brown’ Returns, Not for the Better 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It takes the splenetic livewire of American film and installs him as condemned human property, boarded up and fenced off. Manglehorn review – Renaissance man Al Pacino delivers a masterclass as a lion in winter 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z When they disembark, they are slightly rumpled, perhaps more than slightly late, agitated by splenetic tweeting and an excess of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee that sells for $3.50 in the cafe car. Zippy Amtrak Train Gets Tangled in ‘the Swamp’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In “Farinelli and the King,” also a Globe production, he occupies a poignant middle ground between those two Shakespearean archetypes, as a troubled soul who shifts between lyric melancholia and splenetic rage. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z On a platform designed to turn idle thoughts into urgent messages, it can be hard to distinguish between a crude or splenetic observation and a menacing threat. Censoring Twitter 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet a complete, physically detailed urban subculture is summoned through Mr. Owen’s words and Ms. Melville’s splenetic delivery of them. Review: A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Michael Legge As readers of his fascinatingly splenetic blog will know, Michael Legge is proud to be one of the angriest men in comedy. This week's new comedy 2012-08-10T23:05:32Z When she came back to Broadway, two years later, she gave an eye-scalding fireworks display as the splenetic, dying mother in “Three Tall Women,” for which she won a Tony. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z All those literate indie couplets, splenetic punk insults and hip-hop braggadocio, on display right where everyone could hear them. Readers recommend: Resurrection songs 2010-04-01T23:01:00Z Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views. Lip-Reading and Fashion Criticism: Meghan’s U.K. Trip Under Scrutiny 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Moscow’s splenetic response to the European visit underscored Putin’s anger over Ukraine’s tightening bonds with Europe. Putin alert for signs of eroding Western unity on Ukraine 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z These are things that just make us splenetic, things we fall in hate with, even though they are easily ignored. Perspective | Who can say why some things just rub us the wrong way? 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z For as long as it has existed, rap was, or was supposed to be, the crafted but splenetic outpouring of the dispossessed. The Psychic Contortions of the Black Mogul-Entertainer 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z "Although on more than one occasion subjected to vulgar insults by splenetic, ill-tempered players, he uniformly preserved that gentlemanly demeanour which has endeared him to opponents as well as his club companions." The 'most influential' black footballer & his slave trade link 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that President Trump made our response to the virus a political issue, and that the simple act of wearing a mask sent some of his supporters into splenetic rages. Recent Kansas editorials 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Kalder proposes Lenin as the originator of the modern totalitarian style in prose, adopting Marx’s splenetic polemical tone for the purposes of Communist revolution. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But Trump seems even more splenetic of late. Opinion | ‘Human Scum,’ ‘Lynching’ and Trump’s Tortured English 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z But dragging a 16-year-old into this splenetic, self-serving bar brawl makes a dangerous new level of provocation that should not go unchallenged. How Greta Thunberg became the new front in the Brexit culture war | Gaby Hinsliff 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z His older brother was into heavy-metal music, and Drnaso began to join him at concerts and record stores, developing a love for splenetic bands like Acid Bath and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The Bleak Brilliance of Nick Drnaso’s Graphic Novels 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Then I read “splenetic” in the third paragraph. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Michelle Obama’s book reviewer, a tasteless cartoon and other memorable movie dances 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z A case in point is his stark, acoustic reading of Idiot Wind, his most splenetic song since Positively 4th Street, which sounds even more intense than the more elaborate version on the 1975 original release. The raw, painful birth of Blood on the Tracks 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The wild-eyed expressions and tone of his voice were full of vicious, splenetic wrath. Brett Kavanaugh’s grotesque carnival: Will Republicans put this petulant child on the Supreme C... 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The call represents one side of a debate about how the media should view and respond to the president’s splenetic attacks on the press — or whether the media should do anything at all. ‘Not the enemy of the people’: 70 news organizations will blast Trump’s attack on the media 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z In one of many splenetic tweets about Harley, he said: “If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end.” Harley-Davidson shifts some production out of America 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Trump’s splenetic tweets about foreigners were quoted in court opinions blocking his immigration initiatives. Perspective | Trump’s problem isn’t that he has bad lawyers. It’s that he’s a bad client. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z A splenetic call to lock America’s president in an asylum, the piece described Mr Trump as “dolt-like” and an “old lunatic”. If Donald Trump does meet Kim Jong Un, a lot could go wrong 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But from a splenetic Trump rally on Saturday night to a recent appearance by Joe Biden on behalf of Lamb, both parties are treating this race as if it were a dry run for November. Why it's time for Democrats to ditch Nancy Pelosi | Walter Shapiro 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr Davenport-Hines makes his case with splenetic zeal, backed by a formidable array of sources. Decrypting the Cambridge Five 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z US national divisions were fuelled, in turn, by Trump’s splenetic denunciation of American football players who knelt before games to highlight disproportionate violence against black people. Trump, Putin and Xi: a year of tough-guy leaders and foolish brinkmanship 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Unlike the provocations of Malcolm Tucker, the splenetic and foul-mouthed political adviser in “The Thick of It”, the barbarity of Stalinism was genuine. “The Death of Stalin” is a precarious comedic experiment 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, it does now seem very unlikely that some urgent event could foment a shift to a more mature, presidential attitude on the part of our splenetic, unpredictable commander in chief. In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’ 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr Trump winked and nodded at the upcoming pardon in a splenetic, rambling 76-minute speech in Phoenix earlier this week. An unforgiveable pardon for Sheriff Joe 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z But he reserved his most splenetic rants for the political shenanigans and growing materialism he found at home. Eduardo del Río, Political Cartoonist Known as Rius, Dies at 83 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The splenetic excesses of his homophobia seem both entirely in keeping, from a psychoanalytic point of view, with his hysterical machismo, and unreplicable. Homophobia is back – it’s no accident that nationalism is too | Zoe Williams 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z It would not be fair on the staff to repeat his splenetic observations and unsubstantiated allegations, which covered page after page of A4. Ian Brady letters: Inside the mind of the Moors Murderer - BBC News 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z What’s hard to understand about Bill Belichick scowling on the sidelines and grunting through press conferences like a splenetic badger is that he’s actually a player’s coach. The incredible redemptive powers of Bill Belichick | Les Carpenter 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But some targets of The Voice’s splenetic rants and dense exposés seemed beyond redemption. Wayne Barrett, Fierce Muckraker at The Village Voice, Dies at 71 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Coleridge went so far as to use red ink, like a splenetic schoolmaster, which seems excessive to me. Witty marginalia – just another reason to love the printed book | Steven Poole 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Some saw it as a direct descendant of punk - a loud and splenetic reaction against the deprivation and disillusionment of its biggest proponents. Glastonbury's Grime take-over - BBC News 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z This is why Trump rails against Republicans as splenetically as he does Democrats. Welcome to the age of Trump | Jonathan Freedland 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The splenetic fury Trump taps may be immutable, and no Nixon is on the horizon to focus it. No one will be able to stop the political violence Donald Trump is unleashing 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The result is that the party is now in a position in which the only plausible alternative nominee is a splenetic septuagenarian socialist. Family Feud 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z I'm surprised he leaves out proud, revengeful, ambitious, clumsy, splenetic, quick to judge and slow to learn. A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z A fugue of demented wordplay and splenetic typos, it is by turns hilarious, baffling and disquieting: Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z A party paper, the splenetic Global Times, far from finding it presumptuous to criticise the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who is also its leading theologian, accused him of “spouting nonsense”. The golden urn 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The author told Radio 4's Open Book the novel was "not autobiographical", although he admitted it was "a splenetic outpouring of bitter envy". Children's author Peet dies aged 67 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z At the end of a political season of splenetic rhetoric, this tableau is now a remarkably unremarkable reminder of the good that politics can do. George Will: In Georgia, a Republican becomes a capitalist punching bag And while Basil Fawlty at his most splenetic may appear an odd role model, a select band of hospitality entrepreneurs have built successful careers on a reputation for being cantankerous and abrasive to their clientele. The restaurants that thrive on insulting their diners 2014-03-07T00:32:44Z "The decision about which offenders to enfranchise, particularly those on the cusp of a custodial or community sentence, should follow reflective judgement rather than an immediate splenetic response." Call for some prisoners to get vote 2013-12-18T00:47:11Z It stated: 'Although on more than one occasion subjected to vulgar insults by splenetic, ill-tempered players, he uniformly preserved that gentlemanly demeanour which has endeared him to opponents as well as his club companions'. Looking into Scotland's black history 2013-10-08T00:13:24Z In some senses you have to admire the splenetic loyalty of these fans. Are football supporters too harsh on managers and players? 2013-05-16T13:58:16Z Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images could face a double punishment for his splenetic reaction to the FA disciplinary panel's suggestion that he gave unreliable evidence in the investigation into and Anton Ferdinand case. Ashley Cole faces action from Chelsea and FA over rogue tweet 2012-10-06T17:53:22Z The men got on splendidly, sharing splenetic anti-American views. Julian Assange: Leaker unplugged 2012-06-21T15:00:15Z I wandered disconsolately through the rain, my mood splenetic. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z These contain the most outspoken utterances of a critic never mealy-mouthed, and include the splenetic attack on the memory of his dead friend R. L. Stevenson, which aroused deep regret and resentment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The splenetic irritation of this disaster seems to have clung long after to the Duke of Burgundy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z "It was not from any morbid indulgence of any splenetic humour with which you were at that time afflicted, that induced you to bring this action?" Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours 2012-03-14T02:00:27.650Z The Marquis of Ingoldsby's narrow forehead was corrugated by a fixed and splenetic frown which kept his eyes and mouth at their very widest. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z There is little doubt he was something "splenetic and rash," or that the elders feared he would bring them into trouble by his impetuous temper. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The Byron-writers have united in denouncing Musters for denuding this hill-top in a splenetic endeavor to prevent its identification as the scene of the interview described in the poem. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The actor grew moody, splenetic, and gave way to insobriety. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z In this case, Dave copied his lengthy and quite splenetic response to a number of influential game commentators and news sources. Avengers, Controllers and Games PR in the Wild West of the Superfan 2011-12-28T20:00:31Z It is this quality which irritates Hamlet, who is otherwise in the whole of this scene in a particularly moralising and philosophic mood, and is by no means "splenetic and rash." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-26T03:00:11Z Cecilia was his safety-valve, the confidante of all his matrimonial troubles, and he never failed to receive from her some useful advice or some consoling words that calmed his splenetic outbursts. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z We had made experience of states of body which are termed bilious, of states of mind more or less splenetic, lethargic, and irritable. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Many of his correspondents will be anonymous, and too many of them splenetic. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z And the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z But it is also remarkable for the personal and splenetic nature of the case being made against Mr. Gundlach. DealBook: Bond Fund's Gains Help Buoy Support for Money Manager 2011-09-05T19:36:04Z He was "More peevish, cross and splenetic Than dog distract or monkey sick." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Thus was the Scottish Queen to be systematically harassed, and made miserable, to gratify the splenetic jealousy, and lull the selfish terrors, of her sister of England. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z The first is the irascible disposition; the second, the splenetic or vindictive disposition. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Esperanto is fairly harmonious by neoglossal standards, though splenetic rows sputter between “conlangers”, who think made-up tongues are just for fun, and the “auxlangers”, who are serious about substituting for English. Invented languages: Tongues and grooves 2011-08-03T19:17:45Z I. The splenetic or melancholic partakes of the properties of the earth, being cold, dark, and hungry for the light. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z A character of a splenetic and peevish humour should have a satirical wit. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Devil take all wanton jilts!" cried the old man, with a splenetic tone, "and especially this one, that has spoiled me so many hours of my life! Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z His face was a striking one; the forehead was high and intellectual, the nose prominent and somewhat hooked, the eyes were dark and deep, and gleamed splenetically from under the shaggy and prominent brows. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The ceremony got on his nerves and caused him to write afterwards to his brother an entertaining splenetic diatribe on the clerical character and physiognomy. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He affected Swinburne, and in Huysmans, who was not a poet, his splenetic spirit lives. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z At bottom he was only a splenetic sceptic, sincere only in his self-idolatry. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z You perceive how blind, how unjust and splenetic, I was; and, the longer it lasted, my spleen increased. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Arcadian virtue and Bœotian brain, under the presidency of such a stertorous and splenetic goat-god, given to be sleepy in broadest noonday, are not the best crucibles for art to be tried in. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z You see how a woman's fancy varies! sometimes, splenetic and heavy, then, gay and frolicsome.—And how d'ye like the humour? The Inconstant 2011-04-27T02:00:21.193Z Beneath the splenetic cupola of the heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as the sky, they journeyed onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned to hope for ever. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Liverpool in Dalglish's time as a player was not splenetic, as it is now, and he would not want it to remain so. Liverpool selling Fernando Torres would be a sign of self-confidence 2011-01-30T00:09:02Z What!" exclaimed our friend, in a splenetic tone, "have we nothing but portraits, illuminated names, and allegorical figures, to show in honor of a prince, who, in my opinion, merits quite a different eulogy? Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z In my mental vision I can mark the rising gorge of some splenetic Briton of the philanthropic school as he reads this phrase, "glorious pastime," wipes his glasses and reads it again. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The result is like a time-capsule version of a splenetic blog rant. Art Review: Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age 2010-10-07T21:47:00Z I realise I am spitting at the wall here, because the pipsqueak cries for ever greater and more splenetic displays of emotion grow shriller by the minute. Don't get too excited, Aston Villa fans. G?rard Houllier is back 2010-09-16T23:06:00Z What a paltry notion is that of his 'Divine Comedy's' being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII His splenetic moods and his violent dislikes arose not from p. 34a want of sensibility, but from an excess of sensibility. The Vagabond in Literature Goldoni was a good fellow at bottom, but splenetic, and a miserable writer. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Lee set out for the South on the 7th of March, carrying with him his bold spirit, his shrewd sagacity, and his whimsical and splenetic humors. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools The clearness and brightness of the sky, add new vigor to their spirits, and perfectly remove all splenetic and sullen thoughts. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts Nothing more serious than an envious scribbler's splenetic effusions had ever assailed him. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series I would not have troubled you with this unpleasant chapter, if it were not necessary, in order to understand the animus of the splenetic course of the papers referred to. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania And even that which he did like was so eccentric, or rather so splenetically mad, that one felt uneasy about his sanity. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors He felt not a little hurt at her unceremonious departure without a word of farewell to him and was inclined to be morose and splenetic during the succeeding fortnight of convalescence. The Song of the Wolf Todd quotes the note of Bishop Hurd,—“Happy men love witnesses of their joy: the splenetic love solitude.” Minor Poems by Milton Very few French travellers seem able to avoid an occasional outbreak of splenetic patriotism. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy’s being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Seymour has been venting his rage in a manner as pointless as it is splenetic, and we are sorry for him. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. “Still falling out with this and this, And finding something still amiss; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick.” Talkers With Illustrations Mr. Kean’s Hamlet is as much too splenetic and rash as Mr. Kemble’s is too deliberate and formal. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Vance was splenetic once before, but became amiable enough about the time of the election. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital In the Greek Islands now, the use of it is known to every one; and even the lazy monks who take it, are no longer splenetic. Hypochondriasis A Practical Treatise (1766) Thy very hatred, thy very envy, those foolish lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humour; what is all this but an inverted sympathy? The Social Principles of Jesus Courtenay's Review, together with several other little known memorabilia concerning Johnson, stimulated one of the most energetic and splenetic literary controversies of the late eighteenth century. A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) And one among them, voluble and small, Shot out a splenetic speech: 'This lord of kine, Our herdsman, grows to ox! Legends of the Saxon Saints A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies: In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss: More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 And yet Shakespeare makes Cæsar characterize himself very much as Cassius, in his splenetic temper, describes him. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar It is in vain to combat the prejudice of splenetic aversion. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace I am not splenetic and rash," he said; "yet have I something in me dangerous. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The fact that he also portrayed more unreal characters in dismal drapery—Lara, Conrad, and Manfred, as the mouthpieces of splenetic misanthropy—has led to some unjust depreciation of his capacity for veritable delineation. Studies in Literature and History Her husband, formerly the governmental procurator, well known in his day as an active official—a man of energetic and decided character, splenetic and stubborn—had died ten years previously. A Nobleman's Nest All this while, moreover, they were secretly composing their splenetic "Journal." Renée Mauperin His charge against the authors was unquestionably right; but his attack upon the stage itself, exhibited a disposition splenetic almost to misanthropy, and an austerity of principle urged to unsocial ferocity. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 The Jews, above all nations, were morose and splenetic. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection In this labour, assisted by his good friends the Jansenists, he indulged all the impetuosity and acerbity of a splenetic adversary. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The letter writer afterwards mentions in a splenetic style the envoy from Monsieur, one Baqueville a Norman, "with four or five of Monsieur's youths," who attended the queen and were "well entertained and regarded." Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth I ask you now, is it not enough to make a man splenetic and melancholy all the days of his life? The Home Of all the men of the Revolution, Robespierre has suffered most from the audacious idolatry of some writers, and the splenetic impatience of others. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humour: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The herb is therefore gathered and used as a medicine for the cure of splenetic people. The Ten Books on Architecture Climacteric is accented by some speakers on one syllable and by some on the other; so are splenetic and schismatic. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Ye wedded Fair, who, splenetic at home, Think it the duty of a Wife to roam! The First of April Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. But certain people always grow splenetic— Why, goodness knows—at everything pathetic, And scoff it down. Love's Comedy What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy’s being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged-upon on earth! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History He was not successful, and in a splenetic mood he flung himself at full length upon a bank of wet grass. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters But Jack was at that day a reckless fellow, and he lived to be passionately sorry for his splenetic madness. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Whoever it was, he must have excogitated the idea at a distance, and in some splenetic humour; it never could have entered through his eyesight standing here. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Yet the towns were frequent and lively, and the cordial politeness and ready smile of the wooden-shoed peasant restored good humour to the splenetic. The Last Man His disciples filled courts, academies, and saloons; those of Rousseau grew splenetic and visionary amongst the lower orders of society. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution But, do not give your attention so much to this subject as to become splenetic. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister Another witness, a splenetic old man who owned those mats, when asked if they belonged to him, unwillingly testified that they were his. The Awakening The Resurrection Since that lesson, I have never sent off an angry or splenetic letter, although the temptation to "have it out" upon paper has sometimes got the better of my more sensible self. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) But, come, this splenetic fit is already passed; resume your functions; your partizans will hail you; your enemies be silenced; our love, honour, and duty will again be manifested towards you. The Last Man He seems to be not far from thinking that only our splenetic and melancholy race could have given birth to such literary monsters. Life of Charles Dickens I had also Mr. Selwin who was a banker in Paris, a worthy man, but a more splenetic one I never knew, with an extreme good understanding. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life If Pope had not been splenetic and irritable, we should have wanted his Satires; and an impetuous temperament, and passions untamed, were indispensable to the conformation of a poet like Byron. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals What a paltry notion is that of his 'Divine Comedy's' being a poor splenetic, impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century This splenetic disrelish of his place was evinced in almost every function pertaining to it. The Piazza Tales I have no reason to be morose or splenetic. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him And it's, oh! that some splenetic folks I could name If they must deal in acids would use but the same, In such innocent graphical labors! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood His weakness of body seems to have acted upon his strong mind, which must account for much that is satirical and splenetic in his writings. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Carlyle once said in a splenetic mood that the lives of men of letters were the most miserable records in literature, except the Newgate Calendar. The Life of Froude Gnawed by his splenetic mood, he sat twitching his beard, while to little purpose the hand of his servant, mute as that on the wall, slowly pushed over the Canary. The Piazza Tales I would cast, and gladly, from this gray head Its crown, to regain one sweet lost year With artist George, with splenetic Fred, With dreamy Frank, with the pipes and beer! Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry The big hawk-nosed man by his side cackled in his throat with short, splenetic mirth. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The existing Government in a splenetic attempt to crush it, had dismissed certain magistrates for having their names enrolled on its books. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 There was something perverse and splenetic in every word he uttered, and every expression upon his face. The Doctor's Dilemma It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave you choleric and splenetic and exhausted. New Tabernacle Sermons Some are too tame, that were too splenetic once. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 By garrulity you will offend the splenetic and morose. The Works of Horace If you consider this letter splenetic, consider I have just received the news of the death of a friend, whom I esteemed almost as many years as you—poor Fenton. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) He belongs to an old school; splenetic, choleric. Walking-Stick Papers But if people will indulge a splenetic humour, it is impossible to be at ease, when such creatures as are the scandal of our species, set up for gallantry and adventures. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 His chief grievance is British diplomacy as represented by Sir Edward Grey, upon whose devoted head he empties the vials of his splenetic humor. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Nothing splenetic, no element of suspicions and irritable self-love, entered into the composition of his character. Cowper But I begin to grow splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) A splenetic Englishman said to a Scottish countryman, something of a wag, that no man of taste would think of remaining any time in such a country as Scotland. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The splenetic Briton, weary of his wife, may put a halter round her neck and sell her in Smithfield. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The latter's impatience had probably as much to do with it as anything else, while his splenetic manners and speech intimidated the boy's already overwrought sensitiveness. The Soul of a Child In this chaos of uniforms, we seem to be approaching times such as existed in England after Waterloo, when the splenetic Byron declared that the only distinction was to be a little undistinguished. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The revd. gentleman met with some remonstrances from his friends, for indulging so splenetic a temper, when he was writing in the cause of religion, as to wish any man accursed. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. The Massachusetts Congregational Association can do you no harm if you do not allow its splenetic and idle manifesto to divert your attention from the great and holy purpose of your souls. The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights That he was occasionally splenetic in his disposition is very manifest. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 He had no end of names—romantic, splenetic, of opprobrium, or outright endearment—to suit, I imagine, Lakalatcha's varying moods. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 So, on common mornings, a little splenetic, he wanders down to the coffee-houses and reads the pamphlets, those which find King William glorious, and those that rail at the watery Dutch. Gossip in a Library A splenetic and idle discontent with the existing institutions of society, seems to be at the bottom of all their serious and peculiar sentiments. Famous Reviews The truth is, though general Lee was extremely splenetic, other than which, such a miserable old bachelor and infidel could hardly be, yet he certainly had a knack of telling people's fortunes. The Life of General Francis Marion So doubtful Greeks or Trojans might have paused and stared upon the plains of Ilion when some splenetic and fickle deity burst unannounced and overwhelming into the central clamor of the battle. The Cruise of the Jasper B. To the grand army of working women I would say, Be not discouraged by such gross affronts, prompted by splenetic hearts and spewed forth by empty heads. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He was a smart, soldier-like Irishman, of "a splenetic and amorous complexion," half an actor, a quarter a poet, and altogether a very honest and gallant gentleman. Gossip in a Library Or do you mount the pulpit with a splenetic heart and, with frantic gestures and a voice hoarse with passion denounce the criticism as "infernal rubbish"? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau idéal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy. Nightmare Abbey You humour me when I am sick, Why not when I am splenetic? The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 During this period he saw little or nothing of Goethe and steadily nursed a splenetic determination not to like the man. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller I did indite a splenetic letter, but did the black Hypocondria never gripe thy heart, till them hast taken a friend for an enemy? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Even the atheist has his uses; nay, even the splenetic preacher may fill an important niche in the great world's economy—may be a real blessing in disguise. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Which speaks of an intemperance in the splenetic parenchyma; that is to say, the spleen. The Imaginary Invalid When he says that Count D'Ossoli in attempting to model a foot placed the big-toe on the wrong side, he states what is altogether incredible, and discloses his own splenetic humor. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Well! but I did not take up this paper to flourish away in splenetic politics. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. But as his powers of mischief were now at an end very slight notice was taken of his splenetic effusions. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched One almost wonders at the forgiving spirit in which the decorators of the Library of Congress have inscribed upon the walls of the new building certain maxims from the splenetic Sage. America To-day, Observations and Reflections But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography As we happen not to be of the feminine gender," returned Borroughcliffe, with an air somewhat splenetic, "we must abide the fury of the king of beasts. The Pilot In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities. Daniel Deronda Although Hawthorne was not splenetic or rash, there was an occasional look in his eye which a prudent person might beware of. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne His splenetic feelings, as well as his political sentiments, were occasionally vented in severe attacks upon the ministry, full of irony and sarcasm. Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Would the great but splenetic poet have made an angel and a saint of Beatrice, had he married her? Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 I never saw nor heard of such an animal as a splenetic, bustling kind of a poco-curante. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Does the satiric spirit, perhaps, institute splenetic comparisons between the lofty poetical pretensions of posthumous tenderness and their fulfilment? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Warwick had his information from Dr. Simcott, Cromwell's physician, who pronounced him splenetic. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 —A vapourish or splenetic patient is a fiddle for the doctors; and they are eternally playing upon it. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 All classes took the greatest interest in it, so that splenetic people pronounced the nation "coronation mad." Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 He was discerning in his friendships, somewhat aggressive and splenetic to his equals; intolerant of cats, whom he hunted like vermin, and rather disdainfully condescending to the small dogs of Milnthorpe. Esther : a book for girls The Admiralty method of paying out anyone against whom you cherished a grudge possessed advantages which strongly commended it to the splenetic and the vindictive. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore The splenetic capacity, the calumnious credulity, the pleasures of prevarication and of rolling falsehoods like a sweet morsel under the tongue, have made those thirty thousand Cromwell pamphlets possible. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Save in the splenetic outbursts of Byron—and they are not to be taken too seriously—the indispensable laws of Aristotelian criticism fell silent at Johnson's death. English literary criticism True, the satirists were everywhere, with their epigrams and their songs; but who can form a policy by listening to the jeers of the splenetic? The Eve of the French Revolution In the course of time, official labor becomes tiresome, and the India House clerk grows splenetic. Charles Lamb He was grave, irritable and splenetic; but never comical. Bricks Without Straw This situation was probably preferred by Sir Mungo on account of the number of objects which the streets of a metropolis usually offer, of a kind congenial to the thoughts of a splenetic man. The Fortunes of Nigel "A splenetic and idle discontent with the existing institutions of society seems to be at the bottom of all their serious and peculiar sentiments." English literary criticism However, this is mere conjecture; but he really had a run of ill-luck not very inviting to a man of his cold and splenetic turn to play the same game. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 She urges her faith in social regeneration; he vents his splenetic contempt for the mob. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters This is a true and beautiful description of a naturally quiet and contented disposition, and not, like the former, the splenetic effusion of disappointed ambition. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays No hesitating, morbid view of life, but rank, harsh assertiveness, not untinged with splenetic anger. Chopin : the Man and His Music For those are my sentiments in that splenetic humour, which governs me at present. A Treatise of Human Nature To scorn and revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty. The Unclassed His companion asked for a description of the young lady, and he gave one remarkable for splenetic exaggeration. Our Friend the Charlatan Mr. Kean's Hamlet is as much too splenetic and rash as Mr. Kemble's is too deliberate and formal. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays With the winter coming on, you see—' Sidney broke in with splenetic perversity. The Nether World No, I was not splenetic; you see what plunges the Court has been at to set all right again. The Journal to Stella Schopenhauer wrote a splenetic essay which, as it is neither polite nor profound, was probably intended to knock this nonsense violently on the head. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara Dyce had relieved himself of a slight splenetic oppression, and felt that he was behaving boorishly. Our Friend the Charlatan For many years he continued to discharge splenetic remarks about his music, and he was always annoyed at being called his pupil. Haydn I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 I can't be merry so near any splenetic talk; so I made that long line, and now all's well again. The Journal to Stella One phrase of his, in speaking of Ireland at a banquet, achieved the dignity of being printed in all the great London daily papers and was followed by a splenetic attack in the "Irish Nation." Peg O' My Heart We have had not only wonderful travellers in this vile world, but splenetic travellers, and of these not a few, and also conspicuous enough. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Appeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 And Horace seems to have purged himself from those splenetic reflections in those odes and epodes before he undertook the noble work of satires, which were properly so called. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry In the town of Harrar, near the Red Sea, Arthur Rimbaud surveyed with splenetic impatience the tragedy of Khartoum. Eminent Victorians The knight had valued Walton’s company as a cure for ‘those splenetic vapours that are called hypochondriacal.’ Introduction to the Compleat Angler Dr. Johnson, bred in the luxuriance of London, with more reason should become cross and splenetic in the bleak and dreary regions of the Hebrides. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Critic has followed critic in denouncing the book as that of a "splenetic" invalid. Travels through France and Italy —A notably splenetic little Henri; head of an Opposition Party which has had to hold its tongue. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 Exquisitely polite they both strive to be; and under the exquisite politeness, what infirmities of temper, splenetic suspicions, and in fact mutual hatred lay hidden, could never be accurately known. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Of his envies, deep-hidden splenetic discontents and rages, with Voltaire's return for them, there will be enough to say in the ulterior stages. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 George I., her son, a taciturn, rather splenetic elderly Gentleman, very foreign in England, and oftenest rather sulky there and elsewhere, was not in a humor to be forward in that particular business. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 Whether dyspeptic or "splenetic," this was not the sort of man to see things through a veil of pleasant self-generated illusion. Travels through France and Italy Adams, in his splenetic temper, held that both these unnecessary evils had wreaked their worst on Boston. The Education of Henry Adams Jasmine's engagement to Tu implied his rejection, and he was disposed to be splenetic and disagreeable about it. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) Why, there's the point! my distresses are so many, that I can't affort to part with my spirits; but I shall be rich and splenetic, all in good time. School for Scandal For the noblest desires are of a jealous nature—they engross, they absorb the soul, and often leave the splenetic humors stagnant and unheeded at the surface. Last Days of Pompeii The splenetic dame was apparently on the point of going. Gaudissart II "Over thine," retorted the Dwarf, more splenetically than became a philosopher or hermit, "folly exercises an unlimited empire, asleep or awake." The Black Dwarf The old Bastille Electors, after some ten days of psalmodying over their glorious victory, began to hear it asked, in a splenetic tone, Who put you there? The French Revolution What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy's being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish Lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humor: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy? Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh So splenetic! cry more: each grudging the other, none daring to be outdone in self-denial by the other. The French Revolution Montgaillard, with his splenetic eye, notes a no less strange thing; that every fashionable Citoyenne you meet is in an interesting situation. The French Revolution If Voltaire once, in splenetic humour, asked his countrymen: "But you, Gualches, what have you invented?" they can now answer: The Art of Insurrection. The French Revolution |
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