Saturday, July 24, 2010
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Lag:
(1) The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
"The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss is in them, make suitable for destruction."
-Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.
"The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss is in them, make suitable for destruction."
-Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Procerity:
Talness; height of stature.
"We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity."
-Addison
"We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity."
-Addison
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Doughbaked:
Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.
For when, through tasteless flat humility,
In doughbak'd men some harmlessness we see,
'Tis but his phlegm that's virtuous, and not he.
-Donne
For when, through tasteless flat humility,
In doughbak'd men some harmlessness we see,
'Tis but his phlegm that's virtuous, and not he.
-Donne
Monday, July 12, 2010
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