Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule the Parliament of Man; but never casts a vote at a civil election. What is politics to him? The play of infants...
Whatever may be the merit of the young gentlemen of the University of Pennsylvania as oarsmen, it cannot now be denied that they have an abundance of conceit. The boat club, in expressing, in writing, to Ellis Ward its appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the club by his unselfish devotion to its interests during the past five years, "unanimously resolve that, by his faithful, untiring and skilful efforts, he has brought the club from a state of obscurity to a foremost position among the colleges of America, Whether successful or defeated, the unparalleled and matchless form displayed...
...pose and face. He stands, his hand upon his hip, turned half away, his head slightly thrown backward. The artist has made the Latin poet to look behind him toward the great singer of Greece, as if asking for sympathy from the shadows of the past: a poetic conceit, but one which has been sadly thwarted by those in charge of placing the windows. According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor. As the windows are now placed, the design is exactly reversed...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...
...Peabody followed: "There were less snobbishness and conceit in Harvard men," he claimed, "than in men from other colleges, because the poor students were never looked down upon at Harvard...