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11The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …
12Cyril Gwynn — The Gower Yarns of Cyril Gwynn , front cover, with a portrait of Phil Tanner, another famous Gower yarn teller Cyril Gwynn (1897–1988) was a British poet, from Gower, in the City and County of Swansea. He was known as the Bard of Gower, and… …
13Alain de Botton — Infobox Writer imagesize = 150px name = Alain de Botton caption = pseudonym = birthname = birthdate = birth date and age|1969|12|20|df=y birthplace = Zurich, Switzerland deathdate = deathplace = occupation = Essayist, Novelist nationality =… …
14The Accacha Chronicles — Infobox Album Name = The Accacha Chronicles Type = compilation Artist = Nicholas Lens Released = 2005 Recorded = Genre = Contemporary classical Length = 224:20 Label = Sony BMG Producer = Nicholas Lens Reviews = Last album = This album = Flamma… …
15bombastic words — pretentious talk, high flown language, pompous language …
16Altiloquence — Al*til o*quence, n. Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey. [1913 Webster] …
17Baron Bodissey — The aristocratic philosopher Unspiek, Baron Bodissey, is a fictional character referred to in many of the novels of speculative fiction author Jack Vance. Within those novels he has the status of an authority (he is, so to speak, the Hume or… …
18Catherine (novel) — Catherine: A Story was the first full length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser s Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackeray s original intention in writing… …
19peroration — perorational, perorative, adj. peroratorical /peuh rawr euh tawr i keuhl, ror euh tor /, adj. peroratorically, adv. peroratory /peuh rawr euh tawr ee, tohr ee, ror /, n. /per euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. a long speech characterized by lofty and often… …
20tumor — tumorlike, adj. tumorous, tumoral, adj. /tooh meuhr, tyooh /, n. 1. a swollen part; swelling; protuberance. 2. an uncontrolled, abnormal, circumscribed growth of cells in any animal or plant tissue; neoplasm. 3. Archaic. a. inflated pride;… …
