Lexicographical Neighbors of Lownesses
Literary usage of Lownesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"... Generalissimo of the Army of Literature, and their lownesses, the Princes of
the Republic of Grub Street. As in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"I wonder indeed that he, who ventured contrary to the practice of all other epic
poets, to imitate Homer's lownesses in the narrative, should not also have ..."
3. The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the author and a by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1856)
"0 eternal, holy, and most glorious Jesu, who hast united two natures of distance
infinite, descending to the lownesses of human nature, that Thou mightest ..."
4. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their by Samuel Johnson (1854)
"I wonder indeed that he who ventured (contrary to the practice of all other epic
poets ) to imitate Hunters lownesses in the ..."
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