classicalities

Charley, who was somewhat oblivious of his classicalities.

The Three Clerks 2004

And he had asked Johnny to tell the name of the fair one, bringing up the remnants of his half-forgotten classicalities to bear out the joke.

The Small House at Allington 2004

I had attempted the classicalities of the dull, though immortal

A Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 2003

I had attempted the classicalities of the dull, though immortal

The Purcell Papers 2003

The other woman had surfeited him with classicalities.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

English Art seemed to be running down; cold formalisms, classicalities, extravagances, affectations, imitations, "high art," occupied the field almost to the exclusion of better things.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

And since all literature which can live stands only upon the national speech, we must look for our hopes of coming epics and immortal dramas to the language of the land, to its idioms, in which its present soul abides and breathes, and not to its classicalities, which are the empty shells upon its barren sea-shore.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

I had attempted the classicalities of the dull, though immortal Addison.

The Purcell Papers, Volume I 1880

And he had asked Johnny to tell the name of the fair one, bringing up the remnants of his half-forgotten classicalities to bear out the joke.

The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848

'Yes, you may bring him in too, if you like,' said Charley, who was somewhat oblivious of his classicalities.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848