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One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced..
If I ruin such a virtue, sayest thou!—Eternal monotonist!—Again; the most immaculate virtue may be ruined by men who have no regard to their honour, and who make a jest of the most solemn oaths, &c. What must be the virtue that will be ruined without oaths?
and those who will be honest enough will own, as I imagine, the Homer has few beauties; his slumbers long and fequent, and notwithstanding his fifteen hundred commentators and translators, he is a monotonist, verbose, and a surfeiting describer.
Happy to escape the formal monotonist, she thanked the Countess with a grateful tear, and reluctantly leaving her to the tedious repetition of dull apothegms and grave declamations, felt a transient relief in the liberty of reflection, […]
If read with propriety, it will soon correct the monotonist of that sameness of tone, which so disgusts in most common readers, and with which no person can ever reasonably expect to give pleasure to those who are so unfortunate as to be his hearers ,
I could chide thee now As vexed Apollo some monotonist That will but finger in one mode alone, And learn no other.
Milton's management of his angels and evils proves as much as anything in the poem the versatility of his genious, the delicacy of his discrimination of character, that Shakespearean quality in him which has been so much over-looked. […] No mere monotonist could have succeeded in it .
In these first lyrics he disclosed the eye of monotonist and etcher for the beauty of Nature.
I don't wish to run my head up against a stone wall. I mean to turn into a British 'monotonist;' and after Parliament meets I can go up to London.
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Monotonist means One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced..
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If I ruin such a virtue, sayest thou!—Eternal monotonist!—Again; the most immaculate virtue may be ruined by men who have no regard to their honour, and who make a jest of the most solemn oaths, &c. What must be the virtue that will be ruined without oaths?
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