Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlesquely
Literary usage of Burlesquely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Euripides by Euripides, Aristophanes (1906)
"The first point, though burlesquely exaggerated, is true and important. Euripides'
style, indeed, is not prosaic. It is strange that competent ..."
2. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"POLLY bows very low, to left, to right, and to front, half burlesquely, to HAWTREE]
HAWTREE. Charmed. POLLY. [Aside] What a swell. ..."
3. Coleridge's Literary Criticism by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John William Mackail (1908)
"Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as
in a mealy, from this couplet to— And then my heart with pleasure fills, ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"23, 26, 28, its powers and effects burlesquely imagined. It is undoubtedly the
work of genius With Grecian mythology much may yet be done. ..."
5. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"... burlesquely, was used by a fool at court, as symbolic of his office.
Baxter's Maxim. Dean Stanley, in speaking at Kidderminster, said that the maxim ..."
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