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Namby-
pamby is a term for affected, weak, and
maudlin speech/verse. It
originates from
Namby Pamby (1725) by
Henry Carey.
Carey wrote his poem as a satire...
- four
elegies attributed to Cooke;
English Colonial America Henry Carey,
Namby Pamby: or, a
panegyrick on the new
versification address'd to A----- P----...
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successful that
Carey himself began to be
known as "
Namby Pamby Carey" (while
Philips became known as "
Namby Pamby"), and the poem even came to be used as children's...
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rhyme is
suggested by its use by
Henry Carey in his
satire Namby Pamby (1725), as:
Namby Pamby is no Clown,
London Bridge is
broken down: Now he courts...
- and
frilled shirt ****ociated with
English storybook schoolboys of the
namby-
pamby kind. Over the
following decades, he
became The Bulletin's
stock symbol...
- led by 'uneducated, illiterate, and puncture-wallahs'. He also said '
namby-
pamby secularism had no
place in new India'.
Surya had
previously called the...
- (1709),
which also
contained the
pastorals of
Alexander Pope. The term "
namby-
pamby",
meaning something that is
excessively sentimental,
comes from his name...
- Tale of a Tub by
Jonathan Swift The Rape of the Lock by
Alexander Pope
Namby Pamby by
Henry Carey Northanger Abbey by Jane
Austen Gulliver's
Travels by...
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Songs (1870). The
earliest reference to the well-known
verse is in "
Namby Pamby", a
satire by
Henry Carey published in 1725, in
which he
himself italicised...
- who
would make a
better villain". He felt
Jonathan Frakes "verges on
namby-
pamby".
Actress Marina Sirtis later recalled the
reviews of the show's debut...