classicalism

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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

In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

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