ricketed

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Hence the stunted spirit of our poets; hence the dwarf products of their imagination; hence the frivolous witticism, the heartless sentiment, crippled and ricketed by soups, ragouts and sweetmeats, which you find in fashionable balladmongers. '

The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838