Lake School


Origin of Lake School

1
First recorded in 1810–20

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How to use Lake School in a sentence

  • Speaking generally, he possessed some of the qualities, and many of the defects, of the English Lake School.

  • As an instance, it is not enough to say: "I will inform myself completely as to the Lake School."

  • In reading about poets and poetry, you will sometimes find an allusion to the "Lake School."

  • So, my preoccupations were all in favor of the Lake School, and it was both in my will and my conscience to like Wordsworth.

    Literature and Life | William Dean Howells
  • To the whole Lake School his attitude is always the same—justice done grudgingly in spite of anger, or satire tempered by remorse.

    Hours in a Library | Leslie Stephen