lucubration
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In other cases, where the personal history of a well-known book seems worth detaching from our critical estimate of it, that shall be the subject of my lucubration.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
As a supporter of the last reign, he was dreading the vengeance of the people so far as concerned his estates in Champagne when Frederick's lucubration fell into his hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
Mr Hobhouse, in his Illustrations of Childe Harold626, says, that the whole lucubration, extending to nearly 300 pages of large octavo, is a grave and continued irony on the verbal criticisms of commentators.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
How was it that the capitalist had put his signature to such a lucubration?
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
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