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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009Auden: trollipish
Hello: How about "lolly?" Is it "candy" or "money?" Also, I wonder which "troll" is referred in "trollipish." --- [About "Horatian" poets being helped] ... you most worldly wish a genteel sufficiency of land or lolly. Among those I really know, the British branch of the family, how many have found in the Anglican Church your Maecenas who enabled a life without cumber, as pastors adjective to rustic flocks, as organists in trollipish cathedral towns. The Horatians by W.H. Auden, p. 580 --- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu Quoth Marius Hancu <Marius.Hancu@gmail.com>, and I quote: >Hello: > >How about "lolly?" Is it "candy" or "money?" It's money. >Also, I wonder which "troll" is referred in "trollipish." It's "trollopish" and the reference is to the novelist Anthony Trollope. Cf. from the OED: "1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 637/4 A Trollopean setting and situation, a cathedral town and a Dean's daughter about to be married."  SignatureJames > >How about "lolly?" Is it "candy" or "money?" > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > situation, a cathedral town and a Dean's daughter about to be > married." I understand your reference, could it be a typo in the book I have? Thanks. Marius Hancu Quoth Marius Hancu <Marius.Hancu@gmail.com>, and I quote: >> >How about "lolly?" Is it "candy" or "money?" >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >I understand your reference, could it be a typo in the book I have? Looks like it. SignatureJames > Quoth Marius Hancu <Marius.Hancu@gmail.com>, and I quote: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Looks like it. Google Books has 12 results for "as organists in * cathedral towns" and they all spell the missing word as "trollopish". SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux > > >> >How about "lolly?" Is it "candy" or "money?" > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > "as organists in * cathedral towns" > and they all spell the missing word as "trollopish". Interesting. Thanks, Donna. Marius Hancu |
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