This is the very quintessence of Leudness.

Thus in Guarino's school at Ferrara (1429-1460) the Ad Herennium was regarded as the quintessence of pure Ciceronian doctrine of oratory, and was made the starting point and standing authority in teaching rhetoric.

Splicing the main brace at such times, is the very quintessence of human enjoyments.

this little flask Contains the wonderful quintessence, The perfect flower and efflorescence, Of all the knowledge man can ask!

Remembering that these little sheets are all the legacy my affection can bestow upon you, I shall concenter in them the very quintessence and epitome of all my wisdom.

the beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me, what is this Quintessence of Dust?

A man's works are the quintessence of his mind, and even though he may possess very great capacity, they will always be incomparably more valuable than his conversation.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

I detest, Sir Cutt, I did not thinke he had bin halfe the quintessence of a scholler he is. Foul.

9.), "but the very quintessence of beauty," some fair creature, as without doubt the poet understood in the first fiction of it, at which the spectators were amazed.

[5350]Xenophon, burns them alone that stand near it, or touch it; but this fire of love burneth and scorcheth afar off, and is more hot and vehement than any material fire: Ignis in igne furit, 'tis a fire in a fire, the quintessence of fire.

Immo nec ipsum amicae stercus foetet, though she be nasty, fulsome, as Sostratus' bitch, or Parmeno's sow; thou hadst as live have a snake in thy bosom, a toad in thy dish, and callest her witch, devil, hag, with all the filthy names thou canst invent; he admires her on the other side, she is his idol, lady, mistress, [5407]venerilla, queen, the quintessence of beauty, an angel, a star, a goddess.

Morrison said laughingly: "Isn't it the very quintessence of quaintness to visit him there!

He fused and recast the antecedent materials of design in sculpture and painting, producing a quintessence of art beyond which it was impossible to advance without breaking the rhythm, so intensely strung, and without contradicting too violently the parent inspiration.

That is the quintessence of "finance."

ENTEL´ECHY, the kingdom of Queen Quintessence.

" From their gross Matter she abstracts the Forms, And draws a kind of Quintessence from things, Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial wings.

The essays contain the quintessence of Bacon's practical wisdom, his wide knowledge of the world of men.

Vol.19: Major critical essays: The quintessence of Ibsenism; The perfect Wagnerite; The sanity of art.

" Ephraim Tutt slowly unjointed himself, the quintessence of affability, though Mr. Brown clearly held him under suspicion.

Of a spirit compounded of these elements and of its quintessence are the 'Nymphals' of the Muses Elizium.

ALBERT, eminent German economist, born in Würtemberg; has written, besides other works, "The Quintessence of Socialism," an able exposé; b. 1831.

It is scarcely needful now to scan in detail the various compromises and expedients by which Grey vainly endeavoured to satisfy the Colonists, first with nominated councils, then with local self-governing powers; or how, finally, he completely changed front, went further than Lord Grey, and drafted and sent home a constitution which, for that day, seemed the quintessence of Radicalism.

And at any rate Dickens got at the quintessence of his creatures, and enables us all, in our various measures, to perceive it too.

Being ignorant was to her mind the quintessence of being common; and as she had undertaken this morning to prove to Dent's mother that she was not common, she had only to prove that she was learned.