You know that it is not to go, like the daughters of Zion in Isaiah's time, with mincing gait, and borrowed head-gear, and tasteless finery, the head well-nigh empty, the heart full of little save vanity and vexation of spirit, busy all the week over cheap novels and expensive dresses, and on Sunday over a little dilettante devotion.

And as Lancelot thought, though only as a dilettante, of old St. Paul's, the morning star and focal beacon of England through centuries and dynasties, from old Augustine and Mellitus, up to those Paul's Cross sermons whose thunders shook thrones, and to noble Wren's masterpiece of art, he asked, 'Whither all this?

And at first Appleyard had set him down as a poet, or an artist, or a writing man of some sorta dilettante who possessed private means.

man of taste &c; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus^, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.], stagirite^, euphemist. caviare to the general

On the other hand there appeared in genteel circles the first traces of the tastes subsequently displayed by the dilettante and the collector.

Centralisation, you say, top-heavy imperialism, dilettante pessimism, the love of luxury.

And one may say generally that if a man finds himself with nothing to do, he is sure to choose some amusement suited to the kind of power in which he excels,bowls, it may be, or chess; hunting or painting; horse-racing or music; cards, or poetry, heraldry, philosophy, or some other dilettante interest.

He will take a dilettante interest in art, or devote his attention to some branch of sciencebotany, for example, or physics, astronomy, history, and find a great deal of pleasure in such studies, and amuse himself with them when external forces of happiness are exhausted or fail to satisfy him any more.

But a dilettante interest in art is a very different thing from creative activity; and an amateur pursuit of science is apt to be superficial and not to penetrate to the heart of the matter.

ah yes, let other men Love Elia for his antic pen, And watch with dilettante eyes His page for every quaint surprise, Curious of caviare phrase.

But she was determined in her purpose, and regarded the College Settlement as the one opening and refuge for the energies which had too long been given to the arrangement of paper chases across country, and the routine of society, and dilettante interest in kindergartens.

Even the distracted and hesitating soul of Clough, amid the dilettante contemplation of the arts in Rome, was rightly stirred.

I believe many dilettante authors do cocker themselves up into a great jealousy of anything that interferes with what they are pleased to call their fame: but I should as soon think of nursing one of my own fingers into a whitlow for my private amusement as encouraging such a feeling.

" An excellent companion sketch to that of the dilettante vicar is provided in that of the poor curatethe scholar, gentleman, and devout Christian, struggling against abject poverty to support his large family.

He wrote for the proprietors of the "Atlas" that elegant little book of dilettante criticism, "A Ramble among the Musicians in Germany."

There is a curious point for you to settle, my friend, who study psychology in a lazy, dilettante way.

Grimshaw had revolted against ugliness as a dilettante objects to the mediocre in art.

Still it was not unattractive to the dilettante, and he rode beside Trimble with profit to his knowledge of men and affairs.

" After playing the dilettante in France, Maynwaring returned home, and in time became a staunch Whig, a Government official, and, later on, a Member of Parliament.

If the artist is unsuccessful, we consider him a mere dilettante.

They would speak of a modern Keats as a self-indulgent dilettante; of a modern Shelley as an immoral Republican.

I don't want you to be an amiable dilettante.

"After all, then," exclaimed he, "you are but a dilettante!

Amiel himself declared that "the pensée-writer is to the philosopher what the dilettante is to the artist.

It must have been shortly after this that Marivaux returned to Paris to continue his studies, and possibly to prepare himself for the life of a literary dilettante.