Word: bookishness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Goldenrod" is a graceful bit of verse that is redolent of nature. It is spontaneous and has nothing "bookish" about...
...various sports of field-day. Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however, these allegations are sensational, being founded on isolated cases of imperfection, and worked up in a few minutes to make copy...
...surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share his enjoyment with others. Dearly as he loves the choice volumes ranged in neat order on his book-shelves, they are but half-used while they are not shared. The bookish man may be selfish, but it is the exception only ; the rule is that the true lover of books is "ready to lend." And so it comes to pass that, at the close of a long, eager conversation on Robert Browning's poems, or Froude's "History," or some quaint old treasure...
...many, physical relaxation is at its greatest. At our present examination season, or earlier, the nervous systems of even the animals we experiment upon in physiological laboratories have so much less vigor as to be unserviceable for certain scientific purposes. The winter is nature's season for indoor and bookish work, while June days bring languor, give a fresh attraction to out-of-doors that comports ill with the culmination of the mental efforts of a year...