Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...
...each recipient made the preceeding far mere impressive than the antiquated ceremonial still followed at our University As president Eliot named each of the new Doctors, he rose in his seat and bowed in acknowledgement, so that some 40 degrees were conferred in 20 minutes without the aid of pompous Latin compliments...
...Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this...
...Very fair, but the author parades the parody a little too much, and the last line is a little too pompous...