agnist

Updated: May 19, 2025

His greater voluminousness, induced by necessity, puts him at a rather unfair disadvantage with the first; and we may perhaps never find in him those exquisite felicities which delight and justify the true "Agnist." He could like nearly all things that were good in which respect he stands above both his rivals in criticism.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)