Word: gilpin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor...