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He hath achieved a maid
That paragons description and wild fame;
One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.
Shakespeare
authors | women | beauty
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Thus the theory of description matters most.
It is the theory of the word for those ...
Wallace Stevens
writers and writing | description | words
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Description is revelation. It is not
The thing described, nor false facsimile. ...
Wallace Stevens
description | poets and poetry | writers and writing
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveal ...
Freda Adler
taboo
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An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
intentionality | mind, the
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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and descri ...
Matthew Arnold
class
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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel ...
Jane Austen
dancers | dancing
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The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga ...
George Gordon Noel Byron
sensation
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of ...
George Gordon Noel Byron
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have su ...
George Gordon Noel Byron
universities and colleges
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