Gosse

[ gaws, gos ]

noun

1. Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.

Gosse

/ ɡɒs /

noun

1. GosseSir Edmund William18491928MEnglishWRITING: criticWRITING: poet Sir Edmund William. 1849–1928, English critic and poet, noted particularly for his autobiographical work Father and Son (1907)

Example Sentences

This Mr. Gosse ingeniously, but not satisfactorily, appropriates as the main support of his chronology.

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Mr. Gosse had said that "the natural uses of English and the obvious forms of our speech will be driven from our poetry."

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Rogers's own copy of this, which (it may be added), he held in horror, now belongs to Mr. Edmund Gosse.

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Papa called it phosphorescence; and to-day we saw all about it under the microscope, and read about it in Mr Gosse's book.

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Gosse tells us that it is still a common belief in Jamaica that crested snakes exist there which crow like a cock.

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