Citations:histrionism


 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism
 * […] the faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all that we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayerbooks only, what other thing remains believable?  That Cant well-ordered is marketable Cant;  that Heroism means gas-lighted Histrionism; […]