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• The beautiful, when it degenerates, produces triflers, fops, dandies, chatterers, silliness, bores, and fools.
• She started writing at age 16, when she also started an occasionally published magazine called " The Trifler ".
• Besides the works already mentioned, a volume by Lady Miller entitled " On Novelty, and on Trifles and Triflers ", appeared in 1778.
• :" As political affairs are the highest and most extensive of temporal concerns, the mimick of a politician is more busy and important than any other trifler.
• The headmaster was not amused at this diversion from studying the classics, calling him a " poco curante " ( trifler ) in front of the boys.
• He derided Atlantic Monthly editor William Dean Howells and Henry James as " Miss Nancy Howells and Miss Nancy James . . . two eminent triflers and cameo-cutters in chief to Her Littleness the Bostonese small virgin ."
• In Italy, Lady Miller had purchased an antique vase, dug up at Frascati in 1759 . The vase was placed on an " altar " decorated with George Selwyn, observed, " Their next subject is upon Trifles and Triflers . . . . You may try your hand at an ode, and I do not doubt but you may be crowned with myrtle for your performance ".
• Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that, though Lowell had significant technical skill, his poetry " rather expresses his wish, his ambition, than the uncontrollable interior impulse which is the authentic mark of a new poem . . . and which is felt in the pervading tone, rather than in brilliant parts or lines . " Even his friend Richard Henry Dana Jr ., questioned Lowell's abilities, calling him " very clever, entertaining & good humored . . . but he is rather a trifler, after all . " In the twentieth century, poet Richard Armour dismissed Lowell, writing : " As a Harvard graduate and an editor for the " Atlantic Monthly ", it must have been difficult for Lowell to write like an illiterate oaf, but he succeeded . " The poet Amy Lowell featured her relative James Russell Lowell in her poem " A Critical Fable " ( 1922 ), the title mocking " A Fable for Critics ".