| 单词 | quintessence |
| 例句 | Scientists sometimes also call it vacuum energy or, more exotically, quintessence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The heavens are made out of aether, or quintessence, which is translucent and unchanging, neither hot nor cold, dry nor damp. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is the quintessence of Zaha's constant attempt to create a landscape as a series of cavernous spaces drawn with a free, roving line. Hadid's design edges out Ashmolean to win the Stirling prize 2010-10-02T23:08:00Z “Kei represents the quintessence of craftsmanship, and his sense of experimentation is really outstanding,” Ruffini says of his decision to team up with the designer. How a Rei Kawakubo Disciple Is Using All-Black Clothing to Make Something New 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z That sentiment, and indeed Williams' entire set, was the quintessence of the festival, almost sold out on a gorgeous summer afternoon in Redmond. Review: Lucinda Williams ruled No Depression fest with swagger, fury, presence 2010-08-22T20:21:00Z An offstage chorus sings a funeral chant for the old king made up of words and phrases — “noble dust,” “quintessence of dust,” and the like — that come from very different places in the play. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals — and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z While he may not be the quintessence of ethics, Ratner isn’t stealing so much as working the angles. Soldiers, survivors and lovable rogues: the new wave of Jewish cinema 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In these four pieces, Balanchine redefined the Romantic-classical quintessence of ballet: chivalrous, fervent and sparkling. New York City Ballet Performs Tchaikovsky-Balanchine Works 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But this is the quintessence of what the law demands: nothing. I too am savagely impartial and should be a Supreme Court Justice 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z What happened in between was often angelic, the quintessence of romantic grace. ‘America’s Ballroom Challenge,’ a Dance Series on PBS 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Sacks goes on to quote Schopenhauer approvingly: "Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves." Will Self: The musical world of Franz Kafka 2012-10-05T21:55:12Z It is the company’s quintessence, a crosshatched leather weave that runs through the shoes, the shirts, the wallets and almost everything else. Luxury Has Gotten Jumbled, but Not at Bottega Veneta 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “They are the very quintessence of culture itself.” Osvaldo Golijov Fracas Over ?Sidereus? Overture 2012-03-08T00:24:00Z In his journals, he wrote that his aim was to render "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh". Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation? 2010-08-18T15:49:00Z He is a study in entrepreneurial spirit and the quintessence of northern-ness in one. TV review: Bank of Dave; Case Sensitive 2012-07-12T21:00:05Z Photograph: The National Gallery Dame Bridget Riley thinks the very quintessence of her art is currently occupying one entire wall in the National Gallery in London. Bridget Riley puts favourites on show 2010-11-23T18:24:00Z Has “Unearthing” reached its quintessence, or might you still do more with it? Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z He is at once charming and unknowable: a force of nature, the quintessence of sylvan magic and the embodiment of entertainment. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z The chorus sing “Dust, quintessence of dust” on that chord, even before Hamlet has sung his first opening lines. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z An informal shot of Moss and Naomi Campbell, smoking in the Meatpacking district, is the quintessence of cool. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z In an extraordinary year in which he started off as Stalin and then became Timon, he is now quintessence of camp with his corn-yellow quiff and a body that coils around itself like a corkscrew. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z Gaudy and proud, she was the very quintessence of drag-queen-with-glaucoma-falling-into-Nelson-Mandela's-wardrobe style. Farewell, Pat Butcher 2011-07-08T12:11:05Z “We were listening to Fats Waller records like ‘Hold Tight’ — there’s the quintessence of the jazz scale and everything you need in the blues in that song,” he explained. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The delectable nonsense of “Paquita” contains much of the quintessence of classical ballet. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The quintessence of this was the Miracle on Ice, in 1980, when a bunch of American college kids beat the Soviets, the best hockey team in the world. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Her chief partner, in fact, is Jorge Torres, who, for some connoisseurs, is tango’s quintessence: I hope to see him dance with her one day. Tango Stars Perform at Dardo Galletto Studios 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z There's something about this tale that represents, for me, the quintessence of what I imagine to be the relationship between traditional hunter-gatherer peoples and their world. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z The details were the quintessence of French elegance: the famous scarves braided into a pony tail and a bag mimicking a woven straw surface. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z It is the quintessence of German Renaissance art: every mountain a colossus, every ray of sun an apocalyptic beam of fire from heaven, every cloud a glimpse of the infinite. Why Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece gives me nightmares 2010-05-27T13:27:00Z More vaguely, each had to capture the breezy, loopy, head-spinning quintessence of summer.” Music Match: If You Like Melissa Etheridge, Listen to Serena Ryder 2013-05-28T20:59:36Z “THE camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” Hotshots 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “They are the quintessence of the art of the Maison Cartier.” A Rare Gathering of Cartier's Best 2012-12-06T16:30:20Z Too bad Anthony Roth Costanzo’s Petrushka existed only on film; the production showed that his face is the quintessence of the commedia dell’arte. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z By simplifying the arrangements and recording in an ultra-laid-back home studio in Laurel Canyon over 10 days, Jones made a Texan singing Tin Pan Alley sound like the quintessence of contemporary L.A. sophistication. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Some theorists describe the force as a field or fluid pervading the whole universe and give it the name quintessence. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z For 58 years--an eternity in this town--Chasen’s was the quintessence of Hollywood, as sublime as the expensive caviar that is on the menu and as low-brow as the world-famous chili that is not. Journalism legend Linda Deutsch on why the closing of Hollywood's beloved Off Vine matters 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z And her longevity feels like a quest in the direction of excellence, as well as a pursuit of her own quintessence. Perspective | How Beyoncé, Drake and Taylor Swift landed on pop’s permanent A-list 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z As Walter Benjamin asked, “Is it not the quintessence of experience to find out how very difficult it is to learn many things which apparently could be told in very few words?” Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “The whole world has to destroy the Russian cancer. It is the quintessence of evil and should be defeated by all humanity.” He left Russia to fight Putin. Now he leads Ukrainian soldiers in combat against his former compatriots. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The key to quintessence is that it changes in value through cosmic history and can be attractive or repulsive. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Her volume is the quintessence of the young Los Angeles poet, who strode to a lectern at the U.S. How growing up in L.A. shaped Amanda Gorman's poetry 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Their energy reached its quintessence two minutes into the action when Williams took his 7-1 on a breakaway but Michigan State’s Hoggard, at 6-4, rushed in from behind to block the layup. Duke surges past Michigan State to give Mike Krzyzewski one last trip to the Sweet 16 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z “These were the last shows where Broadway was the quintessence of popular music.” Signature Theatre is betting if you like ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ you’ll love ‘She Loves Me’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The quintessence of California’s shoreline is its stark variety, from the gentle beaches of Coronado to the sea stacks of the North Coast. Oil spill puts spotlight on the magic and fragility of California’s coast 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “Don’t be afraid of them. They are only the quintessence of vegetable juices, and everything in nature feeds upon them ravenously.” Perspective | Who’s all in favor of eating cicadas? The scientists who study them. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Other efforts are in the works to map the CMB polarization with greater accuracy than ever before, and will put a stringent test on quintessence. Hints of Twisted Light Offer Clues to Dark Energy’s Nature 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In that case, dark energy might be the work of something called quintessence. The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z In the category of younger generations pegging the eccentricity of the older, she achieved a quintessence when she said amiably, “I think the alumni are adorable.” How will fans feel years after dropping the Redskins nickname? Miami (Ohio) provides a clue. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Looking, however, below the surface of things, we find the semi-fabulous quintessence to be unobtrusively doing all the world’s work. Invisible Ether Evolved with Time 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Nothing is more quintessentially Indian than the image of the Buddha seated in padmasana, but for that quintessence to be unlocked, for thought to enter stone, as it were, a catalyst was needed. How the Buddha Got His Face 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z In 1998, Carroll proposed an experimental test for quintessence, based on the prediction that it alters how light propagates in space. Hints of Twisted Light Offer Clues to Dark Energy’s Nature 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z What is the quintessence of “the nest state”? Like a bird building a nest, Dr. King hopes that a “flexibility in thinking” will “let the underlying story emerge.” Why Birds Are the World’s Best Engineers 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Consumers, the quintessence of the U.S. economy, continue to spend. State of the Union: The economy under President Trump, by the numbers 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z If you’ve done any of those things, you can appreciate the fantastic extremes of Bryant’s achievements and savor the quintessence of human potential that he represented in his realm. Opinion | Remembering Kobe Bryant required the hammer of truth 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z One could distill the quintessence of a bicameral Congress into what unfolded next at the Capitol. Trade deals, Trump impeachment trial showcase 'Washington whiplash' at its finest 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The researchers suggested that it would be possible to detect signs of quintessence by looking at maps of polarized light across the CMB. Hints of Twisted Light Offer Clues to Dark Energy’s Nature 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “By your actions you have betrayed the quintessence of our country: its adherence to parliamentary democracy.” The making of a bedsit Nazi: who was the man who killed Jo Cox? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z If you thirst for the quintessence of gin, you have to make your own. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Now the majority accept it, or its allied concept, quintessence. Making Sense of Modern Cosmology 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Apropos the sublime, there’s possible unpleasantness galore about Serra’s sculpture: gross materiality, bombastic scale, and perhaps the all-time aesthetic quintessence of passive aggression. Richard Serra Will Jolt You Awake 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But if dark energy turns out to vary over time, it could require a more exotic explanation, such as an additional force field, sometimes dubbed quintessence, that might change through cosmic history. Robot detector to map cosmos for clues to dark energy 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z And they, Fonda above all, represented the quintessence of that era – its creative tumult, idealism, loss and self-absorption – on screen. Peter Fonda, the easy rider who tested the hippy dream 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Goldlink, Tyler, the Creator and a barely audible Jay Prince did just that, when they teamed up to create and capture the quintessence of summer in U Say. Song of the summer 2019: our writers pick their favourite tracks 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Over time, inflation, quintessence and other concepts now under debate either will be solidly integrated into the central framework or will be abandoned and replaced by something better. Making Sense of Modern Cosmology 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A quintessence seemed to appear in a mother and daughter from New Jersey. For USWNT and its fans, a World Cup parade about more than soccer 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Now he coaches the quintessence of a rescue-dog team that reached the final eight last year, lost six of its top eight scorers and went at least a big rung further this year. At this star-starved Final Four, an underdog is guaranteed to have its day 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The ES now enjoys some of the presence and formality of Lexus’s grand piano, the LS 500, plus its own sidling quintessence. Lexus ES 300h: Spend on the Luxury, Save on Gas Money 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z I can’t quite put my finger on this quintessence, but the Porsche’s cabin environment seems a bit cleaner and easier to embrace. Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S: More Car Than Anyone Could Ever Enjoy 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z She has been excoriated from the right as the quintessence of California limousine liberalism. Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “I remember her wandering around Knightsbridge with no shoes on and I thought that is exactly the quintessence of who she is - completely gorgeous and completely normal and human and modest at the same time.” Julia Roberts, Constance Wu celebrated at InStyle Awards 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Dublin, a growing city of 47,000, is the quintessence of the suburban good life: 75 percent of adults graduated from college; the median household income is $125,500. As Suburban Women Turn to Democrats, Many Suburban Men Stand With Trump 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The book is a quintessence of a certain tendency inside of the work. Teju Cole on turning his photography into music with jazz pianist and fellow polymath Vijay Iyer 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Fiction by Zadie Smith: “Now More Than Ever” 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Her expression, as she observes her lonely wake, is the quintessence of hopelessness. Duterte Harry's drugs war: how one family was destroyed 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s not so much a salad as a cheeky biography of it by the barbarian at the gates, achieving the quintessence of an American classic through Asian ingredients. Asian-American Cuisine’s Rise, and Triumph 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z “The whole album is the quintessence of jazz power in reserve.” John Abercrombie, influential jazz guitarist of the ’70s fusion scene, dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Years later, the producers of “The Apprentice” carefully crafted a Trump character who was the quintessence of steely resolve and all-knowing mastery. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In her I hear echoes of today’s quintessence of whiteness: Trump compulsively referring to “the African Americans” and thereby, in one expression, reducing manifold, complex identities and experiences to one easy-to-generalize-about, monolithic entity. Opinion | When saying you’re black and being black are two different things 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z What a piece of work is a man, I thought, what a quintessence of dust. ‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for her, Hillary Cinton embodied perfectly the quintessence of the American political elite. ‘A Moment of Great Peril’: Foreign Observers on Trump’s Success 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z A change would support quintessence, whereas a steady rate of expansion would be evidence for the cosmological constant. The dark universe: 4 big questions : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Einstein's cosmological constant always stays the same, so if the rate of expansion of the Universe doesn't reflect a constant energy for space, that would indicate the existence of something like quintessence. Q&A: Brian Schmidt : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Others posit some kind of space-filling fluid, sometimes called quintessence, which acts a little like the cosmological constant, but slowly changes in density. Dark energy: Staring into darkness : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Whether photographing a pepper or a toilet bowl, the great early-20th-century photographer Edward Weston repeated insistently that the camera was uniquely equipped “for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself.” The Startling Beauty of Scarecrows 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Bathrooms were once the quintessence of utility and raw function in a house. How to add splendor to a tired bathroom 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The line, “You can’t punish business into doing what you want,” is its quintessence. Mitt Romney has a lot of nerve: The pro-torture, political scion and company killer thinks Donald Trump is the phony? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The lion was both regal and untameable, the quintessence of strength and man's ultimate opponent. Museum of Lost Objects: The Lion of al-Lat - BBC News 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Back in 2001 when it was released, “Halo’s” roomy environments, alien vehicles and frenzied shooting were unrivaled by anything on the market; it was the quintessence of a killer app. ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ review: A solid, blockbuster experience 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z After all, this is a candidate who served on the board of directors for Wal-Mart, the quintessence, the embodiment of U.S. capitalism — for six years. Return of the Hillarybots: Why is the liberal media so afraid of Joe Biden? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The composition of the panel probably also tells us that the ultra formulation of "quantitative easing for people not banks" - till now seen as the quintessence of Corbynomics - is dead. Corbynomics' Thatcher moment - BBC News 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Humiliated rage and furtive envy characterise Muslim insurrectionaries and Hindu fanatics today as much as they did the militarist Japanese insisting on their unique spiritual quintessence. How to think about Islamic State 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z But their core mission — a promise of intimacy that simultaneously extends the star’s brand — is the quintessence of old Nashville. Mower Meets Moonshine at a Museum for Country Star George Jones 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Love, respect, and mutual support between spouses is the quintessence of marriage today. The Marriage 'Handbook' That Proves Gay Marriage Should Win 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Fisher played 18 N.B.A. seasons and earned a reputation as the quintessence of a floor leader. As Knicks’ Derek Fisher Finds, Coaching’s Burdens Are Heavy 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Iowa, the quintessence of heartland America, is undergoing an economic transformation that is challenging its rural character — and, inevitably, its political order. With Farms Fading and Urban Might Rising, Power Shifts in Iowa 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The Mitfords' childhood, immortalised in her sister Nancy's novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, was the quintessence of British eccentricity. Obituary: Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Le Tricorne has held a prominent spot at the Four Seasons since it opened in 1959 and became the quintessence of A-list, expense-account lunching, serving presidents and princesses, the Dalai Lama and Madonna. Picasso painting poised to trade wall of chic restaurant for a museum 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The atheist might see in it that God is no more than the quintessence of humanity. What was God's role in Auschwitz? A question often prohibited, but always asked 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z An alternative value of might indicate that dark energy hasn’t been constant over time, but varies—an idea called quintessence. Leading Dark Energy Theory Incompatible with New Measurement 2013-10-22T11:45:03.273Z Rather than remain constant, quintessence allows dark energy to vary over time and space. Cosmology: Out of the darkness 2012-10-10T21:51:18.137Z The quintessence of the best possible hardware being regrettably, but necessarily, expensive is the F-22 fighter/bomber. The U.S. Military's Technological Bloat 2012-10-02T20:05:29Z The quotations are complementary, for what, after all, is literature but a form of life; the quintessence of many moods and experiences, the diffused flame concentrated and burning clearly in a polished lamp. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z It was desirable, indeed, to have much and varied knowledge, but rapidly and lightly, by vivid and pungent discussion, to reach the quintessence of the most interesting points and conclusions. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Conservative former judge Robert Bork called the decision “the symbol, indeed the quintessence, of judicial usurpation of power.” Health care arguments recall a Supreme Court case that is an equal-opportunity offender 2012-04-08T21:18:00Z And it is the quintessence of prudence not to be too easy of belief. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z He had been too modest even to discuss this question with his Mentor, but surely, surely this quintessence of all that is good and nice could regard these unsolicited confidences only in one way. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The very quintessence of poetry haunts the vague terrain of his verse; but his ideas, his morbidities, these are negligible, indeed, abhorred. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z So, in plain words, you have banished him; the only jolly soul left amongst us, my pearl and diamond and red ruby of Chaplains, abstracter of the quintessence of pantagruelism! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The criticism which we quoted from George Eliot on the career of Melema is the quintessence of the Aristotelian doctrine. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Yet is that recollection a preservation of experience: it is the quintessence, and in fact a higher form, of the substance. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Men might call him "slodger," "yellow-belly"—the first word sounds like the very quintessence of churned mud, the second is eloquent of sickness—and he might grumble at the hardships of his lot. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z He who had exhausted all common types, all common moods, saw that he had here the quintessence both of heaven and earth. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Names applied to this something else include quintessence, k-essence, phantom energy and a bunch more, depending on which theorist you ask and what properties you think likely. Cosmology: The dark side of the universe 2012-02-16T15:59:48Z We had come to Granada to bask in the quintessence of earthly sunshine, and we found bleak rains, dark skies, and influenza. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Preserve this precious quintessence of mercury, which is exceedingly volatile, in a well-closed vessel for further use. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z It is simply "the doctrine of chance." which all orthodox Christendom professes to deprecate and execrate as the quintessence of atheism. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z His stories, though not autobiographic in the usual sense of the world, are the quintessence of his adventures and experiences, accurately recalled and profoundly meditated. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z And, exploring, I passed a room without windows, largely the color of dried blood, the quintessence of a nightmare. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Yet we completely understand them in this extracted quintessence. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Stuart decided that the bolder ride “was the quintessence of prudence.” From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z The subjoined fragment, written on revisiting Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast, contains the quintessence of his descriptive style; the last three lines are sheer landscape painting. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z What is that but the quintessence of bigotry and intolerance? Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z In my life seemed gathered together all the loose ends of existence, all its aims fulfilled, and the quintessence of human relations extracted. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z But the gentleman—a Chilian he was—who came off to transact business with Captain Coates was the quintessence of politeness, doubly distilled. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z "Alchemy has but one aim and object," Paracelsus taught: "to extract the quintessence of things, and to prepare arcana and elixirs which may serve to restore to man the health and soundness he has lost." Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z It was the quintessence of refined affectation, the great fount in which many tributary delights found their source. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Such earnestness is the quintessence of Americanism, and is probably to be traced to the signal fact that in the struggle of life we all start with a fighting chance of coming out on top. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z This, then, is why I conceive Hegel—entirely apart from the value of any special results—to represent the quintessence of the scientific spirit. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z We thus receive the quintessence of his thought and of his art. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z They spoke of the quintessence of arsenic and the quintessence of alcohol; they applied the term "oil" alike to the products of the action of acids on metallic salts and to substances obtained from vegetables. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z It was emotion in quintessence, without passion, without abandon. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The retablo of the high altar is the quintessence of late Gothic sculpture. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z If they are good, they are worth more than the personalities of their authors, of which they are the quintessences. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I say, run to the cabinet of quintessence; Gilbert's water! Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z They were, of course, the quintessence of civilized society, a small coterie living in the atmosphere of courts, seeking to control events by the force of their engaging personalities. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z But with the army ants this mutual assistance was sublimated, developed to a quintessence of excellence. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z An alternative theory proposes that the universe may be filled with an even more exotic, fluctuating form of dark energy dubbed “quintessence.” Nobel Dreams: 2011 Physics Prize Honors Accelerating Universe 2011-10-05T11:15:00.287Z One of the palpable results of the "political quintessence" of Louis Philippe's government took the form of heavy imposts, and these also afforded a subject for Grandville's graphic pencil. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z You are the essence of quintessence; the nectar that Jupiter sipped of the gods was not half so sweet. Octavia The Octoroon 2011-09-26T02:00:30.547Z Are you not the soul of my life, and the quintessence of my heart's affections? Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z He thought of those four years of driving drudgery and causeless dread, and hated Hadley as the quintessence of cheating. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z For quintessence of perfection in pictures, this latest production of ours promises to ‘skin ’em’ all to the bone.’ Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Besides,"--he reasoned further--, "the quintessence of our existence is unhappiness; and from unhappiness as well as, inversely, from happiness must blossom corresponding deeds. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The quintessence of death or stupefaction resembles a kind of peace. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z And he looked for more than a minute at the five curves and a beard which had expressed to quicker eyes the quintessence of his own outward and visible personality. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Close beside the man all the way to the station walked my faithful friend, he himself in all probability carrying a carpet bag, and looking the very quintessence of seriousness and dignified importance. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z That voice and that look embody the quintessence of reassurance. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z It seemed to Mrs. Collingwood that the next three days embodied the quintessence of all that had ever fallen to her lot of discomfort and misery. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The substance of the majority of them is found in his Examination before the House of Commons, as the quintessence of most that is best in Poor Richard's Almanac is found in Father Abraham's Speech. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Was it the quintessence of feminine subtlety, or only honest rage and indignation, that told her how to aim the armor-piercing arrow? The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z They were the "strait" sect; Hebrews of the Hebrews; Puritans of the Puritans; the quintessence of theocratic fervor and patriotic faith; the true Israel. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z His friendliness is the very quintessence of falsehood: “Mr. Pinch,” he cries to poor Tom over the currant-wine and captain’s biscuits, “if you spare the bottle, we shall quarrel!” Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z That, to me, is the quintessence of humor. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Haggis: The quintessence of all that has been said by all the Presidents, Governors, and Mayors in the United States since Eighteen Hundred Eighty-nine. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z But the poet’s mind is a crucible made for extracting from ingredients no matter how heterogeneous the quintessence, the elixir, which it needs. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Baudelaire was one of the elect, an aristocrat, who dealt with the quintessence of art; his delicate air of a bishop, his exquisite manners, his modulated voice, aroused unusual interest and admiration. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Here we have the quintessence of Thackeray’s sermon through all his books, the difference between the humble reality and the vast pretensions, moral, intellectual and social, too often based on it. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There a slant upturn of tight-drawn lids revealed the quintessence of priestly cruelty. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Of his songs he said, "I present to myself a song, as a great composition—I sketch a complete plan, beginning, middle, and end, and make the refrain the quintessence of the whole." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z But there, the most gleaming spot on this our globe under the canopy of the purple night, is the quintessence, the apex of human life.... Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Here follow the “Proverbs of Hell,” which give us the quintessence and the most fine gold of Blake’s alembic. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z O my lady Dulcinea del Toboso! perfection of all beauty, quintessence of discretion, treasury of wit, and pledge of modesty! what may now be thy sweet employment? The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z It’s there we touch the very quintessence and central principle of the proper life. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z The Brooklyn Beefsteak, which occurred last Sunday at the Bell House, a concert hall near the Gowanus Canal, was the quintessence of the modern beefsteak movement. In the Beefsteak Revival, Gluttony Is Good 2011-04-17T01:11:24Z The ultimate quintessence emanating from the supreme source is a wave vibration independent of time and space. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Love does not cease to be love because it is sublimed to the quintessence of a self-denying passion. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The presents of the quintessence of rubbish which I had to receive from my aunts with outward grace and gratitude. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There is the very quintessence of horror in the unutterable suggestion of such passages. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z In any case it was the quintessence of artistic politeness. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Yes—she's the quintessence of life, the dear greed of her, the appetite, the clever appetite for things. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z These words are the quintessence of human existence.” Russian Official Calls for Credible Elections 2011-02-18T18:17:17Z You are rich in gifts more precious than money; and you have the quintessence of all wit in that property that renders you suggestive; it is like what chemists call latent heat. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Doctor Véron has been called as much the quintessence of the life of Paris of the first half of the nineteenth century as was Napoleon I. of the history of France. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z The bare notion was an insult," laughed Max, "You imagined that my father-in-law, the very quintessence of loyalty, would accord to a pitiful republic the honour of possessing him as a citizen? No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z His word ‘Evolution’ is the quintessence of the misunderstanding; his image of a steadfast, mechanical unfolding through selfishness, masked plausibly and disastrously the intricate, perplexing vision of the truth. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z It is sometimes said that California in the Fifties represented the American character in its most extreme form,—the quintessence, as it were, of energy and democracy. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Of all the consummate puppies I ever beheld, I think he is the quintessence. By Birth a Lady Is it too much to suggest that we should make some organized attempt to gather up the quintessence of literature now, and make it accessible to the masses of our race? The Salvaging Of Civilisation And then the wrath of that quintessence of loyalty, the solemn old Councillor, when he hears the story, and sees my name on the prescription! No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Meanwhile, he enjoyed 202 High as the quintessence of youth's amenity. Sinister Street, vol. 2 This retired spot is the quintessence of the older Boston. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It held the very quintessence of holiday airs through all the marching years of boyhood. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The quintessence of all his learning, his perceptive faculty, and his meditations was infused into the life-blood of this immortal poem. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 It included all the quintessence of the ancient grand libraries of Paris, Berlin, and London, which had been brought together at Babylon, and then carried for safety into the desert with the rest. Underground Man The Abb� Pr�vost that morning had expressed for him in art the quintessence of what he knew with sharp prevision love for him would mean. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The heavenly bodies are not composed of the four elements, but of a fifth, a quintessence, which is called ether. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Macdonald is also the author of a number of poems in MS. which have been called the quintessence of indecency. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It is, therefore, the quintessence of all knowledge; places its possessor upon the very acme of enjoyment and perfection; and bestows the highest powers and richest treasures mortals can possess. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology We alone have realised all the quintessence of refinement and reality, of strength and of sweetness, that the social life contains. Underground Man And though at Oxford other circumstances interfere to make the contrast less violent, it doesn't seem to me one gains the quintessence of the university unless one reads Greats. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "I am giving you the quintessence of solid wisdom," he retorted. A Top-Floor Idyl Folk-lore has always been the most essentially French of all imaginative influences in Canadian life; and the songs are the quintessence of the lore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" As in a burning glass the aerial flame With the producing ray is still the same,10 We to love’s purest quintessence refin’d, Do both become one undivided mind. Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. It is the quintessence of existence, the rarest wine of life, the expressed sweetness of difficulty and repression and long-suffering, the choicest holiday of the soul. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The Moor would then offer a cup of his coffee, or rather, according to the Oriental custom, a thimbleful of his quintessence of that exquisite berry. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. For those "monstrous" beings are a highly intelligent and extremely sensitive race, and our—to us—trim and graceful human forms seem to them the very quintessence of malformation and hideousness. Triplanetary When political history is once reduced to its quintessence, the state remains illuminated in all its prose. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History There would be no restraint, no counterweight on the part of your various religions because subconsciously and in their quintessence they want the same. The Brain Her manner was the very quintessence of hospitality. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days We will come at once to a proposition which he regards as the acme of the unquestionable—as the quintessence of axiomatic undeniability. Eureka: A Prose Poem The quintessence of Spencer's views upon the organisation of society—the point from which the pamphlet so misused by Ferri proceeds—is something like this. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory We may leave its “quintessence” to the illustrious Dr. Schaeffle, to whom also we willingly leave the famous phrase, “The social question is a question of the stomach.” Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History "To think that the quintessence of life should not stay with us always." The "Genius" This drama is the quintessence of all that Gorky has, up to this time, written on the "ex-man," whom he has thoroughly "explored." Contemporary Russian Novelists Alchemy, with its essences, quintessences, and spirits, was Pantheism materialized. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition In fact, diminution of labour, with increase of production under rational cultivation, is perhaps the quintessence of Kropotkin's argument. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory He suffered this quintessence of bombastic absurdity to appear in the pages of the official Moniteur, whence it was duly copied by the English newspapers, and afforded us the most intense amusement. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It is at once a quintessence and a compound; and a friend, to deserve the epithet, ought, perhaps, to be capable of delighting us as much over our wine, as on graver occasions. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Looking at it ruefully, I began to feel for the first time what was for me at least the very quintessence of poverty—the absolute impossibility of personal cleanliness and of decent raiment. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The quintessence of the ambassador's remarks was that he was completely neutral, but that Berlin expected more than that. My Three Years in America She's just the quintessence of all one fears and dreads about these new developments, she's perfect—in that way—self-confident, arrogant, instinctively aggressive, with a tremendous class contempt. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman They frequently called him Gabrielissime Gabriel, which quintessence of himself seems to have mightily affected him. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Your husband’s, your sire’s were a difficult part; You’re a byway to suicide, Adela Chart; But to read of, depicted by exquisite James, O, sure you’re the flower and quintessence of dames. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) He was the reverse of Flint, and that his name should have been Snarle at all is odd, for in life he was the quintessence of quietness, and the oil of good nature. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It Your husband’s, your sire’s, were a difficult part; You’re a byway to suicide, Adela Chart; But to read of, depicted by exquisite James, O, sure you’re the flower and quintessence of dames. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) In him are unquestionably prefigured the very flower, the very quintessence, of holiness on earth—the most pious servants of God. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Schumann, as we have seen, was fantastic, mystical, a bold, independent thinker, the quintessence of the Romantic spirit. Music: An Art and a Language The Utopians of to-day, the Anarchists, are the abstracters of quintessence, who can only fully draw forth some poor conclusions from certain mummified principles. Anarchism and Socialism A few poems include all the original compositions of Gray—the quintessence, as it were, of thirty years of ceaseless study and contemplation, irradiated by bright and fitful gleams of inspiration. Select Poems of Thomas Gray At that time the quintessence of society in the town consisted of such as were called upon and returned the calls of the county families. The Broom-Squire In her filmy, transparent costume, she was the quintessence of womanly allure. High Dragon Bump This composition, in many ways the most wonderful single piece we have from Chopin, is the quintessence of his genius. Music: An Art and a Language She was the embodiment of love that had crossed his path and stirred up the very quintessence of evil within him. Carmen Ariza Hamlet goes on to say, "And yet, what to me is this quintessence of dust?" Arrows of Freethought It seemed the quintessence of human experience, the ecstasy of perfect and enfranchising sorrow, distilled from the shackling, smirching half-sorrows of actual life. Tante In the first place he denies the existence of stupor as a clinical entity, except perhaps as the quintessence of "Benommenheit", it is the result of total blocking of mental processes. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type Truly the Symphony is the quintessence of Mozart in terms of sound and rhythm, and we need but to listen to his message and receive it with grateful appreciation. Music: An Art and a Language Furthermore, he contends, "the seed is no part of the ... aliment of the body ... the seed is the quintessence of the blood." Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 And I would have you know that this same desire is the quintessence which is inseparable from nature, and that man is the model of the world. Thoughts on Art and Life The quality is delectable, the quintessence of the flavors and aromas which make the grape a favorite fruit. Manual of American Grape-Growing But that smile was the quintessence of hypnotic flattery. Once to Every Man That supper seemed to me then the quintessence of gastronomy, and I am sure Cotter and I must have said some very good after-dinner things, though I long ago forgot them all. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers But in such way he humbugs Mr. Lincoln, who looks on Halleck as the quintessence of military knowledge and genius. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 But this desire is the quintessence, the spirit, of the elements, which, finding itself captive in the soul of the human body, desires always to return to its giver. Thoughts on Art and Life This was the quintessence of pleasure for him. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Just as a bit of coal tells us what ferns and flowers grew in the far-off era, so the book gives us the very quintessence of man's thoughts about life and duty and death. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Jealousy is the quintessence of selfishness, and no other passion is so destructive of happiness, so full of the contagion of evil. What a Young Woman Ought to Know Powder celestial! quintessence divine New joys entrance my soul while thou art mine; Who takes? who takes thee not? As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century I have placed before him what I suppose to be the quintessence of all that can be gleaned from the Bible to disprove it. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In the Order of Jesus was concentrated the quintessence of the Catholic spirit; and the history of the Order of Jesus is the history of the great Catholic reaction. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) He gives us the very quintessence of perception,—the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The Spectator was the quintessence of gossip in an age of gossip and good conversation. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it But that God is himself the product of a lengthy process of abstraction, the concentrated quintessence of the earlier tribal and national gods. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Yet—would any man believe it possible?—the very quintessence of abolitionism itself has been extracted from this passage of his writings! Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me,—nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. Hamlet I shall not mention the toasts that were given; as we were all loyal and true, they were the quintessence of loyalty. A Sailor of King George And Murillo, though the expert not unjustly from their special point of view, see in him but a mediocre artist, in the same way is the very quintessence of Southern Spain. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia And man also whose reflection that God is, is not a real man, but is likewise the quintessence of many real men, the abstract human, and therefore himself again the creature of thought. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy I ask not ortolans, or Chian wine, The fat of rams, or quintessence of swine. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems Hung between the infinitely great and the infinitely little, frozen by the mockery of two eternities, this "quintessence of dust" which is ourselves, cries aloud to be delivered from the body of its living death. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations This gallant officer proved the quintessence of gallantry. A Sailor of King George It is the ichor, the quintessence of the creative mystery. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions But isn’t it beautiful, all that out there—the real quintessence of life.” Northern Lights Their story is the quintessence of the subsequent turbulent career of Latin America during the Nineteenth Century. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) There are few things more utterly discomforting to our minds than waste: it is a sort of pungent extract and quintessence of folly. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory It was a new experience—a quintessence of joy. Standards of Life and Service Those who understand the poetry of Keats recognise that in the passion which burns him for the "heavenly quintessence" as Marlowe calls it, there is also the ghastly danger of reaction. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The doctrine was bred into my bones; I saw the folly of it intellectually, but the emotional comfort of it was the very quintessence of my life. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Second, abstract minds, "quintessence abstractors," with whom the internal life is dominant in the form of combinations of concepts. Essay on the Creative Imagination The following is the essence or rather quintessence of the voluminous responses in the order in which they were published. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 Sometimes when a jay is hidden in a copse, he utters a low, scolding sputter, that seems to express the very quintessence of disgust. Our Bird Comrades The good old post-captain had improved and beautified the place from a farm-labourer's cottage into a habitation which was the quintessence of picturesque inconvenience. Vixen, Volume I. Manfred:"— "We find in this tragedy the quintessence of the most astonishing talent borne to be its own tormentor. My Recollections of Lord Byron His song is a loud, clear, cheerful strain, the very quintessence of gladness as it mingles with the roar of the cataracts. Birds of the Rockies To us out here the 'Fragments' are the very quintessence of life. Fragments From France Their voices lacked the volume and strength of their rivals, yet some of their strains were truly the quintessence of sweetness. Our Bird Comrades We know that he returned to Asia, and wrote the quintessence of his gospel in his epistle to the Romans. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 From their gross matter she abstracts their forms, And draws a kind of quintessence from things, Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial wings! Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher On the other hand, life behind the lines is dreadfully monotonous, especially in the winter months, when the whole of our battle-line is a sea of mud and the quintessence of discomfort. "The Pomp of Yesterday" A quintessence and distillation of peace and comradeship seemed to inhabit the soft gloam of its chancel. War and the Weird These three propositions are the quintessence of Wagner's writings;—the rest is merely—“literature”. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Those who make these things "the top and quintessence of religion" miss the Apostle's "more excellent way." Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Far over his head a flock of wild fowl in arrow formation flew southward, and for the moment they expressed to him, as he lay in the snare, the very quintessence of freedom. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness These lovely little winged gems were to the Mexican and Peruvian Indians the very quintessence of beauty; and were called by various names, signifying “the rays of the sun,” and the like. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America She may be a trifle more superficial than the composers I have mentioned, but her music is clean-cut, clear as a crystal, and, like everything about a refined woman, the quintessence of neatness. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players “Is this so?” demanded the quintessence of ugliness, turning his gaze upon me. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Man is a quintessence of all the elements, visible and invisible. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries "Oh, it's quite a concentration, a quintessence of Protestant feeling," answered Vincent; "I consider myself a good Protestant; but the pleasure you have in hunting these men is quite sensual, Fusby." Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert “That is the quintessence of simplicity; that is Art!” Iole And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.—Shakespeare. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism So is the goodliness, the very perfection, the quintessence, so to speak, and the abstract of creatures' perfections. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning But no number of facts, and no quintessence of accuracy in using them, will ever make a great book. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Believing themselves the exclusive possessors of truth, wisdom, the quintessence of good, they attributed to their opponents nothing but error and evil. The Gods are Athirst This was the quintessence of folly even had good theory been behind it. History of the United States, Volume 3 Its inventor, Armansperg, the quintessence of Bavarian corruption in Greece, called it the Phalanx. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 It is the spirit and quintessence extracted out of these cardinal graces, unfeigned faith, a good conscience, a pure heart. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Are we not assured that He is the personification and quintessence of Justice, and Love, and Mercy? The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast So here we get the very quintessence of the entire philosophy of William Morris: a philosophy which, it has well been said, has tinted the entire housekeeping world. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers It was the word he most wanted to hear, even if the reproach implied the quintessence of stupidity. Laramie Holds the Range Like their neighbours, the famous Poissardes, the Dames de la Halle as they are styled, are the quintessence of all that is disgusting in Paris. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Here, she reflected, was the quintessence of earthly beauty inextricable from the quintessence of horror; here was the source of all that she had trusted elsewhere in countless perfidious disguises and refinements. Sacrifice Most ordinary lives are the quintessence of artificiality and the grossest waste of time. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch It seemed to be the quintessence of pain and passion, conflict and agony, desire and despair. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?" The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of horse sense. Dollars and Sense At least this uncontrolled excitement was what we learnt to look on as the quintessence of English literature. My Reminiscences The resurrection of Jesus throws its light upon still another side of the Biblical doctrine of the primitive condition of man: namely, upon that which is the religious quintessence of the Biblical doctrine of Paradise. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality For he was still as ever the very quintessence of pride. Olive A Novel But as a whole they are the typical quintessence of the Russian people. Maxim Gorki When the mandrake acquired the definite significance as a symbol of the Great Mother and the power of life-giving, its fruit, "the love apple," became the quintessence of vitality and fertility. The Evolution of the Dragon It has been, and now is, a curse to humanity, A sinful, ridiculous species of vanity, The very quintessence of perfect inanity, And is likely to lead to a 'moral insanity.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He sees the quintessence of religion expressly "in the elevation of minds above the real, and in the creation of a home of the spirit." The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality In Althea she saw the quintessence of all dolls. Hubert's Wife A Story for You Ignorant as she was, she was quick to see the incongruity between modern man in his quintessence and the romantic garments of a buried century. The Californians But pearls were also regarded as the quintessence of the shell's life-giving properties, which were considered to be all the more potent because they were sky-given emanations of the moon-goddess herself. The Evolution of the Dragon Now the quintessence of the law has, according to its name, five parts. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 The acknowledgment of the indiscernibleness of the final cause of all things alone is the quintessence of religion. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality What was done there against Christ, and against God in Him, was a kind of embodiment and quintessence of the sin of the whole world. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion I am happy to say she is better,” said the doctor, much amused by the anxious look of the face, which had hitherto been the quintessence of cool self-possession. My Doggie and I Our old comedies abound with perpetual allusions to oils, tinctures, quintessences, pomatums, perfumes, paint white and red, &c. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Oh-o-ho-o-o'; I thought to myself, There is the essence and quintessence of modern music. Gryll Grange "Say! come to have your pictures took?" bawled the first merry fellow, as the height of sarcasm and quintessence of a joke. Vesty of the Basins It is one of the distinctive peculiarities of Charles Dickens as a humorous Novelist, that the cream or quintessence of a jest is very often given by him quite casually in a parenthesis. Charles Dickens as a Reader “Be off!” said Nic; and the others talked in a similar way, and went “off;” looking the quintessence of stupidity. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales But he emphatically rejects the notion—and this is the quintessence of Darwinism—that the dissimilarities between species have been brought about by the purely mechanical agency of natural selection. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers He is simple-minded, learned, tolerant, and the quintessence of bonhomie. Gryll Grange Such, briefly interpreted, appears to have been the quintessence of the wisdom of these political sages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 His poetry is the quintessence of æsthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections For here is the quintessence of intellectualized aquarelle, and these touches would surely have brought into being another "Pierrot of the Minute"—a new line drawing out of a period he knew and loved well. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Apart from the historical sketch, each chapter presents only the quintessence of Darwinism, fairly bristling with assertions, which are boldly put forth as incontrovertible truths. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers It would be difficult to exaggerate the great practical utility of this admirable little book, in which, we have, so to speak, the very quintessence of a dictionary given in poco. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Such an idea is the very quintessence of folly and the personification of foolishness and superstition. The Mother and Her Child For those "monstrous" beings are a highly intelligent and extremely sensitive race, and our--to us--trim and graceful human forms seems to them the very quintessence of malformation and hideousness. Triplanetary Indeed, study is the first duty of the Jew; it is the quintessence of his religion. Rabbi and Priest A Story They are the very breath of democracy; the quintessence of freedom. The Debs Decision So the perfect epigram, at which Pope is constantly aiming, should be the quintessence of a whole volume of reflection. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It contains the quintessence of romantic imagination, but it is quite unlike the most fashionable and successful romances. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature "He is the quintessence of caution, sir, and he never alludes to it by any other term." Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Begotten were the gods of graded rank; Begotten were the gods of heavenly rank; Begotten was Pele, quintessence of heaven. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The nut, inside its germ-proof shell, is solid nutriment of the purest sort, the very quintessence of nutrient value, sunlight in cold storage. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 The 'Dunciad' does not show the quality in which Pope most excels, that which makes his best satires resemble the quintessence of the most brilliant thought of his most brilliant contemporaries. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) She has gained intensity without losing anything of the peculiar character of her beauty; in short, she is more Elena than the Elena of two years ago—the quintessence of herself. The Child of Pleasure It's the very quintessence of those regions all whose sweetness exudes in sun-saturated balsams,—the very breath of pine woods and salt sea winds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Especially, essentially, in love: love, which has its origin in Dream, its acme in Ecstasy, and its catastrophe in Disillusion: love, which is life's core and kernel and epitome, the focus and quintessence of existence. Bubbles of the Foam If La Rochefoucauld offers us the quintessence of aristocracy, La Bruyère is not less a specimen of the middle class. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Walpole's writings belong346 to the good old-fashioned type of history, which aspires to be nothing more than the quintessence of contemporary gossip. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) She is the very quintessence of fashion, and I am one of the danglers whose own light is made brighter by the reflection of her rays. The Rector of St. Mark's Unquestionably, the Reformation meant liberty in conscience, intellect and citizenship, which are the quintessence of modern civilization. A Hero and Some Other Folks The darkness was as it were the quintessence of an ink-bottle. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Man is the paragon of animals, only to him he seems a quintessence of dust. George Bernard Shaw This Leniency, therefore, was, as it were, the very essence and quintessence of the Permanence and Stability of the plan of Creation, and part of the Very Nature of the Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry I may add that this particular "friend," as far as I have been able to observe, is the quintessence of selfishness. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post The quintessence of dust, he is a son of the gods as well as a son of the soil. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Dickens gives us the quintessence of the facetious. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words The quintessence of our subject was this: What is the mission of the Prophet, and what is the object of a divine law? The Promulgation of Universal Peace He remained, however, the quintessence of constancy and trust. Memorials of the Faithful All His life long, that quintessence of eternal glory, that subtle and mysterious Being, was subjected to trials and ordeals. Bahíyyih Khánum Its audacity, which was the quintessence of worldliness, held an alert been-through-it-all expression. Steve Yeager Now," said he, speaking half in mockery, half in awe of the firm-hearted girl beside him, "now, my sin, my concentrated lightning, my beautiful passion, my quintessence of gall and bitterness, go on. The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans They are eloquent; they are poets and scholars and embody the quintessence of humility. The Promulgation of Universal Peace By talent and hard work combined Pithou had 'distilled the quintessence of wisdom' out of the garnered stores of antiquity. The Great Book-Collectors Upon thee be God’s blessings, O Most Exalted Leaf!’ did they welcome that quintessence of love and purity within the towering pavilions of eternity. Bahíyyih Khánum He was at least the quintessence of New England Puritanism, its last and deepest meaning and result, lifted into the regions of ethics and æsthetics. The Last Harvest Devoting himself to celebrating the pleasures and the pomp of life, he took especial delight in heaping ridicule on ecclesiastics, representing them as the quintessence of all impurity and hypocrisy. The Age of the Reformation Bahá’u’lláh has revoiced and reestablished the quintessence of the teachings of all the Prophets, setting aside the accessories and purifying religion from human interpretation. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The very essence of every reality beareth witness to its debarment from the precincts of the court of Thy nearness, and the quintessence of every being testifieth to its failure to attain Thy holy Presence. Selections From the Writings of the Báb These are the quintessence of loyalty and fellowship and love. Bahíyyih Khánum The quintessence of things was what he always sought. The Last Harvest A negative answer would be the quintessence of ignorance. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Mike told the tale of his shame with the very quintessence of bitter resentment. Space Tug Not to spend more than twenty thousand francs in three months was the quintessence of thriftiness. Dr. Dumany's Wife "A true heart's story" Lind will not deny me, Whose troth's too tender for the ocean blast, Who for his mistress makes surrender of His fellow-men—pure quintessence of Love! Love's Comedy Emerson hungered for the quintessence of things, their last concentrated, intensified meanings, for the pith and marrow of men and events, and not for their body and bulk. The Last Harvest His energy now interacts on his clairvoyance with a completeness which he had never quite displayed before, and it is here that we find Mr. Hardy's utterance peculiarly a quintessence of himself. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Here was probably the quintessence of five advertisements. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) No. Goodness of heart, generosity of affections, the very quintessence of good nature! Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals In fact, this tract comprises the quintessence of all that had been urged against the popular system, and his "Candle" was truly a burning and a shining light. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Bridget was the pattern heroine of the 'unco guid,' the quintessence of all propriety; the impersonation of sanctity; an ultra republican, who scarcely accorded to her father the modest title of Protector. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 In the ghost story, we have the very quintessence of mystery. The Best Ghost Stories She was decidely soiled, this quintessence of a quintette of advertisements. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) The three quiet days we spent together on board the Lion remain to me memorable and full of import, eventless and containing the very quintessence of existence. Romance There he learns that life is work and that work is the very quintessence of life. The Vitalized School He was myself—myself at a premium, myself without any drawbacks, the quintessence and culmination of me. Certain Personal Matters From their gross matter she abstracts their forms, And draws a kind of quintessence from things; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial wings. Adventures in Criticism The entire picture presents us with the quintessence of all that is pleasurable to our imagination of touch and of movement. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works Macedonia might be described, indeed, as the very quintessence of the near eastern question. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean The poet ponders life long and deeply and then gives forth an interpretation in artistic form that is surcharged with the very quintessence of life. The Vitalized School I repeat with emphasis, as a rule, for some priceless specimens are no less than astounding in their blaze of colour, the quintessence of a million uninteresting blooms. About Orchids A Chat He had a sort of mystical idea that tar contained the quintessence of the forest, the purified spirit of the trees, which could somehow revive the spirit of man. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries This kind of line, then, being the quintessence of movement, has, like the essential elements in all the arts, a power of stimulating our imagination and of directly communicating life. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works This, the ne plus ultra, or quintessence of diabolical stench, yields the tempting savor which irresistibly attracts many animals to their final doom. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making We must feel that the quintessence and spirit of agriculture throbs through all the arteries of life. The Vitalized School All beauty that the mind can hold is there—the quintessence of all charm and fancy. About Orchids A Chat A fat sergeant was sitting at the table yawning, the walls were hung with police bills, the room itself was the quintessence of discomfort. The Survivor The quintessence of every name can hope for no access unto their court of holiness, and the highest and purest of all attributes can never approach their kingdom of glory. The Kitáb-i-Íqán But that suggestion is the central idea of the origin of species, and contains the quintessence of Darwinism. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work But as the magic hour strikes, presto!—they suffer a sea change and become the quintessence of the Spirit of the Village! Greenwich Village It is great painting in miniature, genius in its quintessence, a gem of perfect water. Life of Charles Dickens "But you are the quintessence of conventionality yourself!" he burst out. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush We find thus in this tragedy the quintessence of the most astonishing talent born to be its own tormentor. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals Even the Vedânta, although in a way the quintessence of Indian orthodoxy, is not a scholastic philosophy designed to support recognized dogma and ritual. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 This volume contains the quintessence of a whole library.... Records of a Girlhood Ho, jealous? he's the very quintessence of 413 jealousy; he keeps no male creature in his house; and from abroad he lets no man come near her. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 If Mr Arnold’s own unlucky and maimed definition of poetry as “a criticism of life” had been true, they would be poetry in quintessence; and, as it is, they are poetry. Matthew Arnold That is the quintessence of them all,—they all take colour and flavour from that. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 And always after that, if Smith wished to express the very quintessence of brutality and meanness, he would refer to the death of his favorites. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia This volatile being in himself personified the quintessence of that society which is called "the world," and could not endure that equality of intellect which genius exacts. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions "Oh, for the quintessence of all compounded oaths to charge my vow!" he said. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Scott had it; but then Scott’s genius as a novelist overflowed into his letters, as did Southey’s talent of universal writing, and Lamb’s unalterable quintessence of quaintness. Matthew Arnold Sympathy is dear—very dear to me: but the sympathy of a poet, and of such a poet, is the quintessence of sympathy to me! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The brief, "matterful" notes to his Specimens of the Old English Dramatists are the very quintessence of criticism,—the flower and fruit of years of thoughtful reading of the old English drama. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Animal life feeds on the quintessence of life in its seeds. Among the Forces We thought it the very quintessence of old age. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant All this silly little world—all this quintessence of fashion and elegance, long out of date, all exhaled the acrid odour of rose-water and essence of mignonette turned into vinegar. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Books of history rarely know them, but they are history of the highest kind,—the quintessence of an age that has passed, or that is swiftly passing away, forever. Stories of American Life and Adventure He wrings out quintessences; and when he has distilled his drops of pure spirit he brews his potion. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary But what a Scarpia, the quintessence of the polished, elegant knave! Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers For one the religious life of India is fundamentally monotheistic and Vishnuite: for another philosophic Sivaism is its crown and quintessence: a third maintains with equal truth that all forms of Hinduism are tantric. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 An hermaphrodite, Page 130at once both the active and the passive principle, she daily scaled the highest peak of the mountain to gather there the flowery quintessence of the sun and the moon. Myths and Legends of China That there was a mutual admiration is found in Southey's declaration that Wordsworth's sonnets contain the profoundest poetical wisdom, and that the Preface is the quintessence of the philosophy of poetry. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction She came closer to him, and very quietly, but with an accent that was the very quintessence of Ibsenism, made the somewhat mercantile statement: 'I have come for my half-profits!' Prose Fancies History, said Carlyle, is the quintessence of innumerable biographies, and it was always the human side of history that appealed to Froude. The Life of Froude But the elixir which it offers to the mind, its quintessence extracted from all things of sense, reacts through intellectual perception upon all the faculties that make men what they are. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The name Paganini stands for the quintessence of eccentric genius,—one of the most remarkable types of mankind on record. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Pantheism, which is its quintessence, did not exist in the early Vedic times. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 He saw so much of virtue in the old order, that he insisted upon the equation of virtue with quintessence. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The individuality, the quintessence, of a writer lies completely outside his view. Aspects of Literature Primarily, democracy is a spiritual impulse, the quintessence of the Golden Rule. The Reconstructed School All my power, all my joy, the quintessence of my life! A Daughter of To-Day It is, however, only here that it reaches the quintessence just spoken of with a coherent and substantive purpose to serve as vehicle for it. The English Novel We quote at such length because this document gives the quintessence of the wise labor statesmanship which this crisis brought so clearly to light. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Also a slight beery savor. touch: Crumbly—a caress to the fingers. taste: The quintessence of this fivefold test. The Complete Book of Cheese It confers wealth by the transmutation of metals and immortality by its quintessence.' The Magician She is the ideal, the very quintessence of woman. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The same qualities appear throughout the other books, whether in more or less quintessence and with less or more alloy is a question rather of individual taste than for general or final critical decision. The English Novel Here is the quintessence of his style in one of its most frequent aspects. Edward MacDowell With Hamlet it contemptuously says, 'What is this quintessence of dust!' Prose Fancies (Second Series) Spring, too, it became, the quintessence of spring, in the young maiden's heart. V. V.'s Eyes I, for one, find it impossible to believe that all this passionate verse—verse in which we find the quintessence of Donne’s genius—was a mere utterance of abstract thoughts into the wind. The Art of Letters Youth, eager, strong, self-confident, with its innocent parted lips, and its steadfast eyes looking out over the future—the drawing stood there as the quintessence, the embodiment, of a whole generation. Elizabeth's Campaign And when this is known to be the native quality and quintessence of love, no one can regard it anywhere, or at any time, as out of place. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Spill not the morning, which is the quintessence of the day, in recreation. The Testing of Diana Mallory Exact definition of desire and a simple strength of purpose from which all aims of others bound back stone-dead: what brilliance of genius or quintessence of mother-wit can hope to outdo this immortal combination? V. V.'s Eyes Let other people go through the toil to acquire; their aim is truth: but here is beauty in its quintessence, and what is beauty but three parts of truth? Miss Bretherton He is middle-aged, rich, lethargic, sententious, dogmatic, and, in short, the quintessence of the commonplace. Some Private Views It is an amazing, a thrilling work, nevertheless, on a scale that prevents it from giving completely the quintessence of El Greco. Promenades of an Impressionist One cannot abstract himself, in this way, like a quintessence from a civilized centre; in 18—the suppression of any human being seems to me impossible. The Cross of Berny But the national credit is of another complexion; of sound health, and an even temper, her life and existence being a quintessence drawn from the vitals of the whole kingdom. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Colonel Craufurd seems to be the quintessence of good nature and of good sense. The Idler in France He is the quintessence of his own lonely soul. The Art of the Moving Picture They esteem it as the quintessence of the whole Koran, and often repeat it in their devotions both public and private, as the Christians do the Lord's Prayer. Sacred Books of the East The young deities discussed Laws of form, and metre just, Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams, What subsisteth, and what seems. Poems Household Edition Of Cynical satire, springing from bitter contempt of humanity, the type is Swift's Gulliver, while its quintessence is embodied in his lines on the Day of Judgment. Cowper Tiny Tim's thousand-times quoted saying is the quintessence, the motto for it all and the writer speaks in and through the lad when he says: "God bless us, every one." Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Her presence was a lesson on the quintessence of reality where successful emulation in superficial ways could be bypassed if done confidently. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America It is hard to distil what is already a quintessence without loss of what is just as good as the product of our labor. Ralph Waldo Emerson His characters, like Watteau's, seem to possess, not quite reality itself, but the very quintessence of rarefied reality—the distilled fragrance of all that is most refined, delicate and enchanting in the human spirit. Landmarks in French Literature "You speak like a Calvinist," she answered, rather ruffled, "with the quintessence of self-protectiveness; and I don't believe you mean a word you say." Ships That Pass in the Night And at any rate Dickens got at the quintessence of his creatures, and enables us all, in our various measures, to perceive it too. What I Remember, Volume 2 The Galop, as its name implies, is the quintessence of all the "fast" dances. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette She was very lovely!—true—but what was the quintessence of dust to him? Paul Faber, Surgeon Here were the quintessences of Baudelaire and of Poe; here were their fine and powerful substances distilled and disengaging new flavors and intoxications. Against the Grain To the elders who knew him the quintessence of his beauty lay in the fact that he was altogether unconscious of it. Mr. Scarborough's Family She was the quintessence of femininity, and she distilled upon the air something delicately intoxicating, like the odor of lotus-blossoms. The Precipice This is the quintessence of the present situation in England. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II It was, what true poetry is always, the quintessence of general mental riches, the purified result of strong thought and conception, and of refined as well as powerful emotion. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters That is to say the quintessence, the true substance of the conversation, remains identical whatever has brought about the conversation, and consequently whatever the subject-matter of it may be. Essays of Schopenhauer Her humor is the very quintessence of human experience, strikes deadly blows at what is unjust and untrue. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The essays contain the quintessence of Bacon's practical wisdom, his wide knowledge of the world of men. From Chaucer to Tennyson Like Mr. Swinburne and other true men, he regards Mrs. Gamp as representing the quintessence of literary art wielded by genius. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories We have Selden's pennyworth of spirit without the glass of water: the quintessence of condensation, which, we are told, is the result of time and experience, which rejects what is no longer essential. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Works are the quintessence of a mind, and are therefore always of by far greater value than conversation, even if it be the conversation of the greatest mind. Essays of Schopenhauer And here is a passage that is quite the quintessence of Americanism, of all its deep moral feeling and sentimental untruthfulness. An Englishman Looks at the World She was never lacking in respect to white people of proper quality; but Major Carteret, the quintessence of aristocracy, called out all her reserves of deference. The Marrow of Tradition Isn't it the very quintessence of quaintness to visit him there! The Bent Twig This object could not be anything else but the second bulb, that is to say, the quintessence of all the hopes of the prisoner. The Black Tulip Therefore, if possible, the quintessence only! the chief matter only! nothing that the reader would think for himself. Essays of Schopenhauer She regarded him gravely, his intent green eyes, his mouth, that to her thirteen-year-old, arrow-collar taste was the quintessence of romance. This Side of Paradise "Grubb, o' man," he said, distilling the quintessence, "I'm fair sick of this shop." The War in the Air There was my aunt too looking bright and pretty, in a blue-patterned tea-wrap with bows that seemed to me the quintessence of fashion. Tono Bungay The sublime pride which is the quintessence of evil, was unconceived before his time. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 And then she called him "a ghoul all red With the quintessence of crimes"— "But I know you love me now," she said, And kissed him a hundred times. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 Your husband's, your sire's were a difficult part; You're a byway to suicide, Adela Chart; But to read of, depicted by exquisite James, O, sure you're the flower and quintessence of dames. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 Soon the hangars behind looked like a child's toys, and the world ran away from us till it seemed like a great golden bowl spilling over with the quintessence of light. Mr. Standfast All that was the fruition and quintessence of the "horrid" elements in life, a disgusting thing, a last indignity that overtook unwary women. Tono Bungay Perhaps nothing else than that special intensity of existence which is the quintessence of youthful aspirations. The Shadow Line; a confession To such she is either an object of adoration, a quintessence of purity and innocence, or less than the dust, sheer filth. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise That is, he's the quintessence of everything that's nice—and 'nasty.' The Conflict All the light fled from Billy's face, but her voice, when she spoke, was the quintessence of cheery indifference. Miss Billy — Married "You don't mean to say you think doing this stuff up in bottles and swearing it's the quintessence of strength and making poor devils buy it at that, is straight?" Tono Bungay For books are more than books, they are the life, The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived, and worked, and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass The quintessence of the honor was all there; there was no difference in values; in truth there was no difference present except an artificial one—clothes. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. Les Misérables And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? The Complete Works of William Shakespeare They bring together persons of all ranks and conditions; and amongst these, a considerable number of females, whose charms want only that cheerful air, which is the flower and quintessence of beauty. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 The body contains no laymen who are ignorant of public works; and the parliament may be said to contain the flower and quintessence of the technical science and skill of all Freeland. Freeland A Social Anticipation Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression—yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. The Beautiful and Damned "I feel glad," he adds in a sentence that recalls the worst egotism of Coleridge, "that I have done with them … I was selling the very quintessence of my spirit for £200 a year." Thomas Carlyle Her verse is the very quintessence of summer—of hot gardens and their scents—of roses—and June twilights. Delia Blanchflower How elaborately artificial seemed the Scudèry's polished tirades, her refinements and quintessences of the grand passion, as compared with the fervid simplicity of the woman-page—a love so humble, so intense, so unselfish! London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Of themselves, they are the very quintessence of quiessence in the universe, and, when formed in nature's laboratory, at once seek quiet and loving companionship with kindred molecules, and retain it forever afterwards. Life: Its True Genesis Anthony had recently discovered Samuel Butler and the brisk aphorisms in the note-book seemed to him the quintessence of criticism. The Beautiful and Damned This "ideal beauty," wonderfully constructed from divine quintessence and subtle pen and brush strokes, this academic mystery, had great success. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Well, yes, for the occupation shows the tendency, the quintessence of character. The Second Deluge I affirm that those who were present at that performance experienced the quintessence of what my personal art can give. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt The king is the artist, you are the guest, I am the abstractor of quintessences, the cook. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett "Ever been in a studio before?" asked Mr. Debris, giving her a glance that was surely the quintessence of keenness. The Beautiful and Damned In 'The Palace of Art' we have the quintessence of 'The Book of Ecclesiastes' and much more besides. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson A tear may be the poetical resumé of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! Amiel's Journal So the child really felt ashamed for her aunt and cousin, who seemed to be the quintessence of neatness, to discover her untidy wardrobe. Patty Fairfield True, and this is the quintessence of Protection. Speculations from Political Economy Dear Brother, I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. |
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