puppyism

• You may think it puppyism, if you please; but I am really sorry when I make an impression, and resolve never to attempt it again: but the next fine voice, or fine eyes Or cigarette,' I suggested; and then I said as much as one man can say to another, for you know a woman can say much more to a man in the way of reproof than he would bear from his own sex; but he silenced me very quickly by regrets and good resolutions. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
• Yet there is a kind of puppyism about the man that will probably prevent his ever achieving the highest place in our literature You are a poet yourself, Mr. Ridgeley, I understand," said Miss Giddings I like poetry, which is a totally different thing from the power to produce it; this I am sure I have not," was the candid answer You have tried Most young men with a lively fancy and fervid feelings, write verses, I believe. —  Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio
• Only a piece of confounded puppyism, of which you ought to be ashamed. " —  Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
• He affects a patronizing air at small tea-parties, and is wonderfully run after by wretched un-idea'd girls, that is, by ten girls in twelve; he is eternally striving to get upon the "staff," or anyhow to shirk his regimental duty; he is a whelp towards the men under his command, and has a grand idea of spurs, steel scabbards, and flogging; to his superiors he is a spaniel, to his brother officers an intolerable ass; he makes the mess-room a perfect hell with his vanity, puppyism, and senseless bibble-babble On leave, or half-pay, he "mounts mustaches," to help the hussar and light-dragoon idea, or to delude the ignorant into a belief that he may possibly belong to the household cavalry. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
• During dinner time he kept the table in a roar of laughter, by declaring it was his opinion there was a kind of puppyism in pigs that they should wear tails -- calling a great coat, a spencer folio edition with tail-pieces -- Hercules, a man-midwife in a small way of business, because he had but twelve labours -- assured them he had seen a woman that morning who had swallowed an almanac, which he explained by adding, that her features were so carbuncled, that the red lettered days were visible on her face -- that Horace ran away from the battle of Philippi, merely to prove that he was no lame poet -- he described Critics as the door-porters to the Temple of Fame, whose business was to see that no persons slipped in with holes in their stockings, or paste buckles for diamond ones, but was much in doubt whether they always performed their duty honestly -- he called the Sun the _Yellow-hair'd Laddie_ ~260~~ -- and the Prince of —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

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