classicalism

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Once landed, I began to wish that the comparison I had drawn for the Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

Flaxman, to his credit, in spite of his classicalism, was one of the first to draw attention 32to the work.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

He is also wholly free from Italianizing tendencies: his classicalism even is that of an English student,—of a schoolboy, indeed, if he be compared with a Jonson or a Milton.

From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Palgrave, Francis Turner