Anonyms

Among my anonyms is a gentleman who is angry at my treatment of the "poor but thoughtful" man who is described in my introduction as recommending me to go to a Sunday-school because I informed him that he did not know in what the difficulty of quadrature consisted. ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)

[816] Plays of this kind were written (without speaking of many anonyms) by Medwall: "A goodly Enterlude of Nature," 1538, fol.; by Skelton, ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

What used sometimes to be quoted as her principal work, _Le Grand Alcandre Frustré_ (the last word being often omitted), is, in fact, a very small book, containing a bit of scandal about the Grand Monarque, of the same kind as those which myriad anonyms of the time printed in Holland, and of which any one who wants them may find specimens enough in the _Bibliothèque Elzévirienne_ edition of Bussy-Rabutin. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

No nation has ever been able, in the course of less than two centuries, to provide four hundred and sixty named poets and an indefinitely strong reinforcement of anonyms, all of whom have native power enough to produce verse at once elaborate in form and sovereign in spirit; and the peoples of the ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

I have not yet written the name of the man I was seeking: contrasts of time and place made it so very remarkable, that I venture to break the rule of anonyms. ❋ Unknown (1851)

These anonyms should know that drawing attention to ❋ Unknown (2008)

The author explicitly refrains from "examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities" in this material (p. 285). ❋ Unknown (1998)

GO GABBY1/05/2006 09:10:00 AM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|Again there are multiple anonyms that you all are writing to - Ted's blog has gotten so popular that it is no longer just a pro-Gabby, pro-Latas blogosphere. ❋ Unknown (2006)