half-notions

Updated: June 12, 2025

That all this has been possible, has shown me how little true intellectual culture has taken root among us, and how easy it is therefore for giddy heads to perplex with half-notions the bawling crowd." "You mean Göthe," said the Baron, "and what are called the spurious 'Wander-jahre. Well, we have now rambled sufficiently wide of our original argument."

Ludwig Tieck - The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels