10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NYMPHOLEPTIC»
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Nympholeptic in New York: A Tale of Love and the Internet
" Delia's humdrum world is defined by the triangle between her apartment and her office, where she props up her boss as he climbs the corporate ladder with his feet firmly planted on her shoulders, and the studio apartment of her father, a ...
2
Swinburne's Apollo: Myth, Faith, and Victorian Spirituality
First,the gradual collapse of oppositions that characterizes the nympholeptic
experienceisreplaced bya renewed sense ofpolarization in“The Lake of Gaube.”
While in“A Nympholept,” rivaldeities, light, darkness, pain,and pleasuremerge
under ...
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A Moment's Ornament: The Poetics of Nympholepsy in Ancient ...
Hymnic poetry gives its own twist to the nympholeptic narrative by privileging
etiology and the pan-Hellenic dimension of this version. It is a commonplace to
say that the heroes of Homeric epic have close bonds with gods and goddesses.
Corinne Ondine Pache, 2011
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Faulkner's Artistic Vision: The Bizarre and the Terrible
In So&iav' Pay, even aesthetic admiration ends in nympholeptic torment.31
Donald s case is enigmatic, because there is usually no way of knowing what he
thinks or how he feels. Only the sequence of events can indicate what happens to
him ...
5
Conversations with Saul Bellow: A Collection of Selected ...
... Demmie is what you really think women are. And Renata is just a sort of —.
Renata. is. the. nympholeptic. dream. of. elderly. gents. like. Charlie Citrine, who
still want to be accepted as virile 122 Conversations with Saul Bellow 4- JO
BRANS.
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The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of ...
nympholeptic—. oak. 235 ( nyin pho Icp tic, a. , NVMPHOLEPSY.] Frenzied. "
Though my »oul wen ngmi>hoirptie AJ Iheanl that vlrtUj." /.'. //. Browning : Thf
Lout Bower. nym plio ma in a, nym pho ma ny. *. [Gr. I'L'M'/'I (nHwijjA^) — a bride,
...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Windows, i. nympholeptic (nim-fo-lep'tik), a. [<
nympholept + -tc.j Of, belonging to, or possessed by nympholepsy; ecstatic;
frenzied; transported. Though my soul were nympholeptic, As I heard that virelay.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The life of John Ruskin
For instance, the 'nympholeptic' in 'The Lost Bower.' I don't, myself, know what it
means, and I haven't had time to look in the dictionary for it; and what is still
worse, I don't expect to find it when I do look. . . . “Among various works I have in
hand ...
Sir Edward Tyas Cook, 1911
9
Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics
Nymphs' is a distinctively Cockney fascination with nympholeptic poetry. Horace
Smith's Amarynthus, the Nympholept announcesthis engagementin its title,
butonecan add such poems as Peacock's Rhododaphne,27 Reynolds's Naiad, ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Of her [Italy's] own past, impassioned nympholept I Mn. Browning, Casa Quidi
Windows, i. nympholeptic (nim-fo-lep'tik), a. [< nympholept + -ic] Of, belonging to,
or possessed by nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied; transported. Though my soul ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NYMPHOLEPTIC»
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His prose is lovely, disturbing. Nabokov never stops astounding his …
Maybe it's a side effect of living in a culture so nympholeptic that it makes Humbert Humbert look well-adjusted. Whatever the cause, any ... «San Francisco Chronicle, May 04»
