MW O Love ! Ye amities,And friendships that appear above the skies ! Ye feasts and living pleasures !Ye senses, honours, and imperial treasures !Ye bridal joys ! ye high delightsThat satisfy all appetites !Ye sweet affections, andYe high respects…
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Herald
MW ‘My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,And slaves they are to me, that send them flying.O, could their master come and go as lightly,Himself would lodge where, senseless, they are lying!My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest…
Rococo
MW from a poem ROCOCO Take hands and part with laughter;Touch lips and part with tears;Once more and no more after,Whatever comes with years.We twain shall not remeasureThe ways that left us twain;Nor crush the lees of pleasureFrom sanguine grapes…
Were I an Epicure, I could bate swearing
Take not his name, who made thy mouth, in vain:It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.Lust and wine plead a pleasure, avarice gain:But the cheap swearer through his open sluceLets his soul runne for nought, as little fearing.Were I…
Epicure
MW Love, in a humour, played the prodigal,And bade my senses to a solemn feast;Yet more to grace the company withal,Invites my heart to be the chiefest guest. No other drink would serve this glutton’s turn,But precious tears distilling from…
Clandestine
MW THE SINS OF THE PAST: (In a medley of voices.) He went through a form of clandestine marriage with at least one woman in the shadow of the Black church. Unspeakable messages he telephoned mentally to Miss Dunn at…
Impresario
MW She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse…
Ebullient
MW For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved,…
Touchstone
MW April 21, 2021 So he discovered the great secret: to stand alone as his own judge of himself, absolutely. He took his stand absolutely on his own judgment of himself. Then, the mongrel-mouthed world would say and do what…
Adulate
MW April 20, 2021 It is not that I adulate the people:Without me, there are demagogues enough,And infidels, to pull down every steeple,And set up in their stead some proper stuff.Whether they may sow scepticism to reap hell,As is the…