clowneries

"One should never be content with approximation; one should never try to avoid the difficulty by resorting to subterfuge -- even if it fools the reader -- or to linguistic trickery" ( "des clowneries de langage").

Archive 2009-03-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

"One should never be content with approximation; one should never try to avoid the difficulty by resorting to subterfuge -- even if it fools the reader -- or to linguistic trickery" ( "des clowneries de langage").

Writing lessons with Flaubert L. Lee Lowe 2009

Not mixt with clowneries us'd in common houses; 20

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

"The Contusions of Peggy, by James Augustus Jimaboy," you are justly indignant when you find melodrama and predetermined pathos instead of the clever clowneries which the sheer absurdity of the author's signature predicts.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887