Word: dircaean
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...obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth...
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