classicalism

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The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

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

In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.

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