Definition of Dryasdust. Meaning of Dryasdust. Synonyms of Dryasdust

- Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter...
- Southey William Wordsworth Characters Jedediah Cleishbotham Jeanie Deans Dryasdust Lord Glenallan Saunders Mucklebackit Edie Ochiltree Jonathan Oldbuck Dominie...
- and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by James McNeill Whistler Dryasdust Laborare est Orare Phoenix Smelfungus Thomas Carlyle (Millais) "Thomas...
- and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by James McNeill Whistler Dryasdust Laborare est Orare Phoenix Smelfungus Thomas Carlyle (Millais) "Thomas...
- and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by James McNeill Whistler Dryasdust Laborare est Orare Phoenix Smelfungus Thomas Carlyle (Millais) "Thomas...
- For more information, see the introduction to The Black Dwarf by Scott. Dryasdust, another meta-character in Scott  This article incorporates text from...
- been kind to Mark Pattison. For many he remains the stereotypical Mr DryasDust and/or the original of George Eliot's Edward Casaubon in Middlemarch;...
- Alan-a-Dale, a minstrel Dedicatory Epistle: An imaginary letter to the Rev. Dr Dryasdust from Laurence Templeton who has found the materials for the following...
- forms of things unseen, his pen turns them to shape." He rebuked typical, Dryasdust historiography: "Dull Pedantry, conceited idle Dilettantism,—prurient...
- repeatedly contrasts his history with the style of the fictional historian Dryasdust. Carlyle transitions from discussing a medieval society, imbued with meaning...