10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NYMPHOLEPT»
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Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic ...
By the 18905 his approach to language is more sceptical; in "A Nympholept," for
example, language is identified with an amoral Apollonian Pan, a Logos both
violent and meaningless. Lyrics like "A Nympholept" and the Elegy for Burton
recall ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
162. nympholept (nim'fo-lept), n. [< ML. nympho- wpttis (Stephani Thesaurus), <
Gr. wfu^okii^roq, seized by nymphs, i. e. the Muses or inspiring powers of nature,
rapt, inspired, < vvu6rj, a nymph, Muse, + Xvjrrof, verbal adj. of iafipavtiv, y %a/3,
...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
nympholepsy Writers who labor to disenthrall us from the nympholepsy and
illusions of the paat. New Princeton Rev., II. 162. nympholept (nim'fo-lept), ». [<
ML. nympho- lepttis (Stephani Thesaurus), < Gr. vvji^oatj-toi;, seized by nymphs,
i. e. ...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
Those that in Pagan days caught in forests a momentary glimpse of the nymphs
and sylvan goddesses were struck with a hopeless passion ; they were
nympholept^; the affec- tion, as well known as epilepsy, was called nympholepsy.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
De Quincey, Secret Societies, ii. The nympholept standB before his white ideal
craving lnve; and it seems as if she will only grant pity and pardon. Dowden, The
Manhattan, III 6 Of her [Italy's] own past, impassioned nympholept ! Mrs. Browning
...
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Charmione; a tale of the great Athenian Revolution
From the depths of the earth sounded in a hollow voice, “ Enter, Nympholept !”
And our nympholept descended a short flight of steps into the dark—so dark, that
he was obliged to feel the rock as he advanced. He then turned a corner to the
left, ...
Edward Aldam LEATHAM, 1864
The nympholept," as this critic explains, " stands before his white ideal craving
love ; and it seems as if she will only grant pity and pardon. He departs from the
white light of her presence into the refracted rays of our lower earth — departs to
...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
(Fleming, 1822), < Kuss. nuiroku (nyrok), a goosander, merganser.] De Qiiincey,
Secret Societies, ii. The nympholept stands before hiB white Ideal craving love;
and It seems as if she will only grant pity and pardon. Dowden, The Manhattan, III
.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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Tennyson and Swinburne as romantic naturalists
17 Although 'A Nympholept' makes use of the mythological figure of Pan,
Swinburne is not a pantheist in any meaningful sense of the word. The poem can
perhaps be described as a poetic re-creation of a 'natural mystical experience,' to
use ...
"The Palace of Pan," from the same volume as "A Nympholept," describes the
pine forest which is the god's palace and, as the poem's imagery invites one to
say, his temple and cathedral as well. "Pan and Tha- lassius," from the third
series of ...
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