classicism

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With all his learning, and his archaisms, and his classicisms, and his Platonisms, and his isms without end, hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

According to the principles of the school, the vocabulary is simple and vernacular enough, for the Pléiade regarded ornate classicisms of language as proper to poetry.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Too close a conformity produces monotonous formalities, cloying classicisms.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

But here, as elsewhere, the classicisms are held in check, and never invade or embarrass the dominant spirit of the Quattrocento.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

Taylor is the least remarkable of the three for classicisms either of syntax or vocabulary; and Browne's excesses in this respect are deliberate.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George