disgustfulness

Updated: May 27, 2025

I abridged Guicciardini's intolerable History, I hacked sense out of Michael Angelo's granite verses, weeded Lorenzo of disgustfulness, Politian of pedantry. The last thing we read together was the Aminta of Tasso; the last thing I had of her was the "Little Flowers of St. Francis," a favourite book of her devotion. My Saint, she called St.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Fool Errant : Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca

How can you expect to get to the meaning of life on which you were so keen a year ago?" "I want beauty, and not disgustfulness," said Zora. "Should it happen, for the sake of argument, that I wanted two dear friends to marry, it is only because I know how happy they would be together. The ulterior motive you suggest is repulsive." "But it's true," said Rattenden. "I wish I could talk to you more.

William John Locke - Septimus