10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYBARITISH»
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To the Sybaritish words beer and .wine Sir Charles has appended a note,
expressive of shame and contrition. " More shame for us ! what have soldiers to
do with beer and wine on a campaign !" They have nothing to do with it but to
drink it, we ...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
These we think the reader will find in Schultze's poem. A cheerfulness that never
rises into actual gaiety, or sinks into gloom; a soothing, Sybaritish melody of
sound, are spread over the tale; a misty atmosphere seems to hang over all, and
to ...
Arthur was not happy unless he was following up some theory or investigating
some " point," and had a Sybaritish way of study which led to no results, and
seemed to promise nothing : a kind of work which very often lands the student
among ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1873
After some time we got luxurious, and had grass gathered for beds, but that we
felt to be rather Sybaritish: still where the ground is much fissured from the sun,
one's sides do at length get rather sore, and some effcminacy may be permitted.
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The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature
... nor Bayle, nor Capperronier's Quinctilian, leviathan folios, unmanageable in
such Sybaritish positions. The most extraordinary fancy that ever entered into the
head of any literary man, is that which, according to Montaigne, regulated the ...
Philosophers and saints feel it in their speculations and devotions, and yield to it
too, in their way, as completely as the Sybaritish gourmand, whose stomach is his
Baal and Ashtaroth. Nor is this at all surprising, in reality, for the gratification of ...
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Specimen Days & Collect
Blanqui drill'd his body to subjection to his grand conscience and his noble
passions, and commencing as a young man, broke with all that is sybaritish in
modem civilization. Without the power to sacrifice self, great tdeas will never bear
fruit.
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The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
He rambled on: My vague allusions to his ways of sultanic languor and sybaritish
luxury, to his frantic imitations of Oriental schemes of festival, to his general and
presumably enjoyable disregard of the tiresome conventions of sedate society, ...
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A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island
Howard Fast, Spaitaciis Blanqui drilled his body to subjugation to his grand
conscience and his noble passions, and commencing as a young man, broke
with all that sybaritish in modern civilization. Without the power to sacrifice self,
great ...
Ahmad M. Kathrada, Sahm Venter, 2005
Now it was something akin to Sybaritish elegance, thought the captain; but all the
same he made his deliberate survey. There was the big dressing-table and
bureau on which had stood that ravished picture,—that photograph of the girl he
...
