单词 | excogitation |
例句 | Truth for him is not to be found at the end of interminable, bed-ridden excogitation. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z It is often alleged that the circumstances of modern literature do not permit of that leisure which is necessary to the excogitation of a carefully developed technique or a sound style. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In the excogitation of careful rules and the deft carrying out of those rules no literature can on the whole approach this except Greek. A Short History of French Literature And the editorial apartment, how spacious, silent, and admirably adapted, in the dignity of its lines and furnishings, for the reception of Cabinet Ministers, and the excogitation of thunderbolts for the chancelleries of Europe! The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The excogitation of this took long, partly because his mind was greatly exercised in the matter, and partly through a nervous desire to postpone the difficult moment. Is He Popenjoy? Do not exact from yourself, at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Let it also be noted that this longitude reward was not a premium upon excogitation of a mysterious difficulty. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs. The Californians Then interviews with publishers, the correction of proof sheets, the excogitation of writings for magazines--fuel for the fire that kept my pot a-boiling. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. A History of English Prose Fiction And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 "Yes," agreed the young man, though with a lilt of dubiety, and a frown of excogitation, as if he weren't sure that he had quite caught her drift. My Friend Prospero After much excogitation he arrived at a solution. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California To the excogitation of this problem, the harmless gentleman had devoted many anxious hours, both in his lodgings over the livery stable-yard, and in the cold gloom, favourable to meditation, of Saint James's Square. Our Mutual Friend When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will, sometimes, give way to idleness or satiety. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes The principles of analysis which he was charged with having borrowed without acknowledgment from Schlegel, with whose Shakespearian theories he was at the time entirely unacquainted, were in fact of his own excogitation. English Men of Letters: Coleridge After about half an hour's excogitation, a brilliant idea at last flashed across him; he had found in a tobacconist's window something to write about! Philistia The comic of Jonson is a scholar's excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist's. Complete Short Works of George Meredith An old philosopher—a Descartes, suppose—fancied that out of primitive truths, which he could by ardent excogitation know, he might by pure deduction evolve the entire universe. The English Constitution The comic of Jonson is a scholar’s excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist’s. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit |
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