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Definition of Soliloquists
1. soliloquist [n] - See also: soliloquist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soliloquists
Literary usage of Soliloquists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Browne belongs to the class of mystical soliloquists who love to discourse to
themselves about fantastic subtleties too fine to excite the curiosity of ..."
2. Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence ( Stedman (1901)
"In a stray poem of his, "Farewell to Nature," the " pathetic fallacy " of the
soliloquists receives the best treatment which any writer has given it. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... and his apprehensions of her brother's having perhaps found her. The two
soliloquists at length perceive each other, and enter into conversation. ..."
4. Victorian Poets: Revised, and Extended, by a Supplementary Chapter, to the by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1887)
"In a stray poem of his, " Farewell to Nature," the " pathetic fallacy" of the
soliloquists receives the best treatment which any writer has given it. ..."
5. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"Whether as interlocutors or as lyrical soliloquists, the characters of the chorus
intersperse, with their general subject, reflexions on the ways of ..."
6. Literary Style: And Other Essays by William Mathews (1881)
"A few such soliloquists in society might rid it of its babblers. It is said that
the elder Mathews talked so much and so fast that he contracted a disease ..."
7. German Romance: Specimens of Its Chief Authors by Thomas Carlyle (1841)
"This was the more frightful to him, as he entertained from of old an inward horror
against all soliloquists. It is Satan that chatters out of them, ..."
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