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It is a wrathful trade, and the irritabile genus comprehends the bookselling as well as the book-writing species. —
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“Men of the genus irritabile, my worthy good gentleman! — and you are one.”
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It would be well for all of the genus irritabile thus to add something of skilled labour to intangible brain-work.
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Systema nervosum maxime irritabile, organos patitur.
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And let it be remembered, as an admonition to the genus irritabile of dramatick writers, that this great man, instead of peevishly complaining of the bad taste of the town, submitted to its decision without a murmur.
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For the sake of human nature it is to be lamented that popular applause produced envy, and jealousy between them, and notwithstanding their divine talents, they sunk into the littleness that degrades the lowest of the poets (irritabile genus) and regarded each other with abhorrence.
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This was as true of Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold, and all the _genus irritabile vatum_, as of the politicians and the men of action.
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Dogberry, and has many a time been "condemned to everlasting redemption," at least by the _genus irritabile_.
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Now the _genus irritabile vatum_, even when their thoughts, as Carlyle put it, "enrich the blood of the world," have very generally appeared to the plain man of goodwill as very defective in the art of living.
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The annals of the _genus irritabile_ scarcely show a parallel to such a career.
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