Dryasdust

How well read, how adroit, what thousand arts in his one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions, which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell, and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teufelsdrock, or Dryasdust, or Picturesque Traveller says what is put into his mouth and disappears.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Dryasdust; I endeavoured to match the spectacles agreeable to her commission, during my late journey to London, and hope she has received them safe, and found them satisfactory.

Ivanhoe 2004

Not that they criticise you so much at the moment, particularly if you appear as an antidote to Dryasdust.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

Unfortunate Dryasdust! they are corruscations terrible as lightning, and beautiful as lightning, from the innermost temple of the human soul; intimations, still credible, of what a human soul does mean when it _believes_ in the Highest -- a thing poor Dryasdust never did, nor will do.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

What deserts of dust he wrought in, and what a jungle of false growths he had to clear away, Dryasdust and Smelfungus mournfully hint and indignantly moralize, -- under such significant names does this new

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Dryasdust details about the biography of Painter and the bibliography of his book in a manner not too Dryasdust.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

I am speaking from my experience when I attended the first of a series of lectures by leading professors of the Dryasdust species.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

It is true that our local historians commonly avoid all romance as if it were of the Enemy; but if we compare their labors with "The Beauties of England and Wales," for example, the work certainly of uninspired men, we shall be convinced that the American Dryasdust suffers from poverty of material.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

He declared, with a striking exaggeration, that the smallest real fact about the past of man that Dryasdust could unearth was more poetical than all Shelley and more romantic than all Scott.

History and Literature 1924

Indeed he is really the greatest defender of Dryasdust in the whole field of literature.

History and Literature 1924