For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cyclopean.

O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.

[…]; ſo that his Sentences muſt prævail in thoſe preſſing emergencies when your Nugatory animadverſions are exploded and derided.

The groom is a Boanerges, rants twice as loud and twice as long as my Phoenix, and is, of course, in the estimate of the fanatics, twice as clever a fellow.