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The boy takes some qualities after his father; he has a daring that is disturbing to an old dryasdust lawyer like me.
To this end, he repeatedly contrasts his history with the style of the fictional historian Dryasdust.
He drew a portrait of "Professor Dryasdust": "His touch is death.
It is continually referenced, as Carlyle depicts history being surrendered to Dryasdust.
- Oh, Dryasdust, my voluminous friend, had Human Stupidity continued in the diligent state, think you it might have ever come to this?
Ever since graduate school, William Pritchard has proudly showed himself no "dryasdust Eng lit pedant."
There is, though, a mention of a purported work by Dr Dryasdust about King Ulphus earlier in the epistle.
As long ago as the 1930's, a member of the American History Association invoked Walter Scott's Dr. Dryasdust to warn that professional historians were losing touch with readers beyond the academy.
My respectful compliments attend Miss Dryasdust; I endeavoured to match the spectacles agreeable to her commission, during my late journey to London, and hope she has received them safe, and found them satisfactory.
"Dryasdust" is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, this chapter being entitled "Anti-Dryasdust."
Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved.
On the contrary, I fear I shall incur the censure of presumption in placing the venerable name of Dr Jonas Dryasdust at the head of a publication, which the more grave antiquary will perhaps class with the idle novels and romances of the day.
The results are seen on the bookshelves of bookshops throughout the world: adequate but largely pedestrian bilingual dictionaries and a scattering of monolingual works that have been resurrected by greedy publishers who have engaged dryasdust editors to update out-dated, out-of-copyright dictionaries in order to make a fast buck.
