As much as I'd like us to dispose ourselves like Sarum-rite groomsmen or grave Spanish courtiers of the seventeenth century, I realize such antiquarianism is not a going concern. From Wordnik.com. [Liturgical Wedding Crashers] Reference
The title of "Pilgrims 'road" I take to be a piece of modern antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference
A commitment to tradition is not a commitment to an academic antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Gadamer's Aesthetics] Reference
Looking back 2,000 years for a political model is a genuine example of antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Corporation Christendom Part One] Reference
Not for this story the arch rodomontades of "Cool Air," or the distant antiquarianism of "He.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Mere antiquarianism, Dr Arnold justly observes, is calculated to contract and enfeeble the understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
It is antiquarianism to import things from ancient sources if they have no history of continuous use in a rite. From Wordnik.com. [URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion] Reference
If it's just antiquarianism, I suppose the phenomenon is uninteresting, but I suspect there's more to it than that. From Wordnik.com. [Legal History (and CLE) Go to the Movies] Reference
Otto's antiquarianism led him to a plan of reform through universal imperial overlordship independent of the German crown. From Wordnik.com. [981-82] Reference
The first night, to prevent rivalry, was devoted to antiquarianism, and to the performance of extracts from the plays of Holberg. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
There is, too, an inherent tendency among scholars toward antiquarianism, which always induces them to take the earliest possible year. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We have often been amused with the different wonders of ancient Rome, but seldom more than with the following piece of antiquarianism burlesqued. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829] Reference
There's a deal of antiquarianism in the inner Empire these days, revival of everything from fencing to allemands-uh, sport with swords and a class of dances. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
This does not mean he wanted to return to antiquarianism and to the notion that we should cast off the pollution of our present in order to go back in purity to the past. From Wordnik.com. [Monument to the End of an Era] Reference
That the Greeks had similar ballads and legends can not be doubted, but to revive them from their present destruction is a task beyond the power of science and antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It shows by what process antiquarianism became poetry. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Such vain antiquarianism in a waste of the poet's power. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic Poetry] Reference
He had no learning -- he cared nothing for antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
It endeavours to unite antiquarianism and abstract science. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
Two questions remain, after much busy antiquarianism, concerning. From Wordnik.com. [The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry] Reference
Eric, the popular notion of early Norse antiquarianism is again exhibited. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference
Only '-- with an effort at antiquarianism --' I believe they had croquet. '. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttie's Father] Reference
But let us have no antiquarianism about Dickens, for Dickens is not an antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Tremendous Trifles] Reference
But the greatest evil from which Chinese intellect is suffering is its bombastic antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference
In truth, M. Filon's very lively antiquarianism carries with it a genuine air of personal memory. From Wordnik.com. [Essays from 'The Guardian'] Reference
His romance and antiquarianism, his knighthood and monkery, are all false, and he knows them to be false. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"Modernity" is foolish, but antiquarianism is rubbish; life in its vigour is neither new nor antique, but young. From Wordnik.com. [The New Society] Reference
The first night, to prevent rivalry, was devoted to antiquarianism, and to the performance of extracts from the plays of. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
"His romance and antiquarianism," says Ruskin, "his knighthood and monkery, are all false, and he knows them to be false.". From Wordnik.com. [Romance Two Lectures] Reference
They look at you with a smile and a shrug, and say they have more important matters to attend to than mere antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
So Horace Walpole retired to Strawberry Hill and made toys of Gothic architecture, or heraldry, or dilettante antiquarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
Now, this is not mere antiquarianism in Virgil, any more than is the detail of old life which abounds in Scott's poems and novels. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
"Of all ways of wasting time, antiquarianism is perhaps the most futile;" and Mr. Vansittart wiped his mouth with an air of finality. From Wordnik.com. [Comedies of Courtship] Reference
Poetry does not live by antiquarianism, but by the passionate conviction that all things are made new through the creative imagination. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
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