Petrarch, even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio, that the purely literary life, and that dilettanteism, which is the twin sister of scepticism, began. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. ❋ William J. Robinson (N/A)
Since Woodbury does not think abstinence to be the cure of intemperance, could he not justify his practice by a higher principle than self-indulgence, lay it on a deeper foundation than dilettanteism? ❋ Various (N/A)
I was conscious of my own sincerity of purpose, yet feared his mental verdict on my actions, for I now realised that his uncompromising words and scathing denunciation of dilettanteism had had much to do with my recent conduct; more than all Armitage's enthusiastic propagandising, much as I liked, and, indeed, admired the latter. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)
This is strong language, but it is time, and more than time, that sickly dilettanteism should be left behind, and this gross libel on the ❋ Robert Wallace (N/A)
But it requires a mind entirely free to give one's self up to the charm of historical dilettanteism which cities built upon the past conjure up, and although Julien prided himself, not without reason, on being above emotion, he was not possessed of his usual independence of mind during the walk which took him to his "human mosaic," as he picturesquely expressed it, and he pondered and repondered the following questions: ❋ Various (N/A)
But the more ravishing the beauty which seemed offered through perfect realization of this knowledge, the more blighting would be its effects, if entertained in the spirit of a selfish dilettanteism. ❋ Various (N/A)
But what most irks me is the absurd dilettanteism and presumption of the man. ❋ Various (N/A)
No matter what element of the public sentiment he met -- the listlessness of pampered wealth; the brutal prejudice of some voting savage; the refined sneer of lettered dilettanteism; the purposed aversion of trade or pulpit fearing disturbed markets or pews; -- he beat lustily and incessantly at all the parts of the iron image of wrong sitting stolidly here with close-shut eyes. ❋ William Still (N/A)
But he was inspired by the enthusiasm of a man who feels with extreme ardor, and when he was met by the partly ironical dilettanteism of Dorsenne he was almost pained by it, so much the more so as the author and he had some common theories, notably an extreme fancy for heredity and race. ❋ Various (N/A)
I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern. ❋ Various (N/A)
Shall we not consider the city-bred girls, confined in circles where the vulgar glitter of wealth was mitigated only by the feeblest dilettanteism, -- spirited young women, falling into a morbid condition, whose pitiableness Dr. Ray has well illustrated, -- who have yet been strengthened to possess their souls in health and steadiness by a voice without pleading in their behalf the right to choose their own work and command their own lives? ❋ Various (N/A)
It is easy to accuse books, and bad ones are easily found, and the best are but records, and not the things recorded; and certainly there is dilettanteism enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us. ❋ Various (N/A)
His family, the Barwoods, had been from the earliest times a race of shrewd and driving New England storekeepers, the very antipodes of sentiment and dilettanteism. ❋ Various (N/A)
There's an era of splendor, of Lucullus feasts, of Bradley-Martin balls and Seeley dinners; there's grand parade of soldiery and ships, miles of costly palaces, and wealth poured out like water in foolish pageantry; there's refinement of manners into affectation, dilettanteism, [sic] epicureanism -- but 'tis "the gilded halo hovering 'round decay." ❋ Unknown (1919)
It is far more important to protect his rights than to protect those of the sportsman; for the serious work of the collector is necessary in order to prevent the scientific study of ornithology from lapsing into mere dilettanteism indulged in as a hobby by men and women with opera-glasses. ❋ Unknown (1916)
The most serious of these defects is dilettanteism, or virtuosity for its own sake. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
His dilettanteism rendered him utterly unfitted for the practical affairs of a large empire in a time of stress. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
On the contrary it is a token of our virile independence, our scorn for the delicatessen of education, mere dilettanteism. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
Art, under the existing conditions, must express what lies nearest the heart, and as Mr. Brinton said in the April number of the Cosmopolitan, "not until most of the country's wrongs are righted or her bleeding wounds are healed, will fiction or the drama settle complacently down to a trivial dilettanteism." ❋ Unknown (1906)
