barrenness

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I would add that the description of "Barrenness," in his verses to Pope, was borrowed from Secundus; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read, I could not find it.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Johnson, Samuel

I would add, that the description of Barrenness, in his verses to Pope, was borrowed from Secundus; but lately searching for the passage, which I had formerly read, I could not find it.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is "the barren animal."

From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen

They are said to be very wholesome for all sorts of Maladies, particularly for the Gravel, and for the Barrenness of Women.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Barrenness, however, was a reproach that could no longer be justly applied to the group, and most especially to those portions of it which had received the attention of its people.

From The Crater by Cooper, James Fenimore