Word: captiousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1876-1876
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acknowledge the merits of "Quotation and Originality," of the "Progress of Culture." His complaint that he finds nothing practical in such a particularly unpractical, un-bread-and-butter subject as "Poetry and Imagination," and his surprise at hearing nothing new or startling on "Immortality," are fair specimens of his captious criticism...