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Gloomy Dean   /glˈumi din/   Listen
Gloomy Dean

noun
1.
English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).  Synonyms: Inge, William Ralph Inge.





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"Gloomy Dean" Quotes from Famous Books



... casuist of forbidden things. His studies of sensuality, however, are for the most part normal, even in their grossness. There was in him more of the Yahoo than of the decadent. There was an excremental element in his genius as in the genius of that other gloomy dean, Jonathan Swift. Donne and Swift were alike satirists born under Saturn. They laughed more frequently from disillusion than from happiness. Donne, it must be admitted, turned his disillusion to charming as well ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... truth in the rumour that among the many new performances of Hamlet which are promised there will be one in aid of the fund for brightening the lives of the clergy, with the Gloomy Dean as ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 5, 1919 • Various


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