64 Metaphors for tastes

The nose is hot or cold, the eyes do weep, The ears do feel, the taste's a kind of touching: Thus, when I please, I can command them all, And make them tremble, when I threaten them.

" I fell asleep that night on a conviction that our taste for barren reality is our chief error.

His taste for navigation became a passion; and once again he embarked on the Frozen Ocean in a ship, determined to go through all the gradations of a sailor's life.

The taste of these negationists is an admirable shears to cleanse the extremities of genius; their enlightenment a great snuffer for the flame of enthusiasm; and their reason a mild laxative for immoderate passion and love.

His taste was a standard to those, who were most attached to the fine arts, and most uninterruptedly conversant with them.

Not the placid and pure taste of Bramante, but the masterful and fiery genius of Buonarroti, is responsible for the colossal scale of the subordinate parts and variously broken lineaments of the existing church.

Dick paid his respects, as seemed but right and proper, to the Misses Perkins, who voted him an exceedingly agreeable young man; and this was the more tolerant on their part that he found very little to say, and had the good taste to be a very short time in saying it.

My taste is books and I farm it.

The perceptive critical taste is, so to speak, the female analogue to the male quality of productive talent or genius.

Their taste is roughish, bitter, pungent, and extremely unpleasant: they stand strongly recommended by Simon Pauli against dysenteries; but their forbidding taste has prevented its coming into practice.

At present those curious people who resent the popular acceptance of an ideal of beauty which they have done their best to popularise are beginning to affect that a taste for Botticelli is a mark of the bourgeoisie.

Study, if you will, Alice; you will learn fast enough, and, in this age of fast-advancing civilization, when the chances of eligible matrimony for young ladies in your station are yearly becoming less and less,oh, you need not put up your lip and peep into my bachelor's shaving-glass!let me tell you that a literary taste is a recourse not to be despised.

His tastes are all his ownhis opinions all genuine.

The taste of these negationists is an admirable shears to cleanse the extremities of genius; their enlightenment a great snuffer for the flame of enthusiasm; and their reason a mild laxative for immoderate passion and love.

Good taste, however, is a virtue that usually has to give way before curiosity.

" VIII TASTES AND AMUSEMENTS A market trait of Washington's character was his particularity about his clothes; there can be little question that he was early in life a good deal of a dandy, and that this liking for fine feathers never quite left him.

This passes indeed with his soft Admirers, and gives him the Preference to Virgil in their Esteem.' Were not I supported by so great an Authority as that of Mr. Dryden, I should not venture to observe, That the Taste of most of our English Poets, as well as Readers, is extremely Gothick.

In poetry her taste was in some respects the taste of an earlier generation; she could not join, for instance, in the depreciation of Byron, nor could she sympathize with the unbounded admiration for Keats which she met with among the young.

Now, what do you think of that?" I said I thought it showed that taste was a matter of habit, and that imagination played a larger part in our make-up than we supposed.

Taste, whether in the arts, literature, or any thing else, is a natural impulse, like love.

or that "a more reddish tinge,""a more saltish taste," are not correct phrases?

However, a sweet and slightly aromatic taste that follows the first impression is an extenuating circumstance.

It chanced to be market-day when I arrived, so that I had a capital opportunity of observing the population for whose edification my "literary tastes" were, I hoped, to be called into requisition.

" "Taste is a poor criterion, I am afraid," said Mrs. Wilson, gravely, "on which to found matrimonial felicity.

We may recognize in it a revival of the common notions of Herbert, as well as a transfer of the innate faculty of judgment inculcated by the ethical and aesthetic writers from the practical to the theoretical field; the "common sense" of Reid is an original sense for truth, as the "taste" of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson was a natural sense for the good and the beautiful.

64 Metaphors for  tastes