all-absorbent

Updated: February 1, 2026

Both were laughing after their all-absorbent, divine, noiseless fashion; and under both was written, Sic Genius. Are not all things, even profanity, permissible in dreams? To which of the Italian lakes should the palm of beauty be accorded?

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series