| 单词 | deathless prose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeathless prose 3. That deserves to be remembered forever; never to be forgotten. Cf. immortal adj. 2b. Now often in deathless prose (usually ironic). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > immortal prose deathless prose1886 1630 T. May Contin. Lucan ii. sig. C5 Those renowned Graecian writers..Whose deathlesse Poems in the skies aboue Haue fix'd so many paramours of Joue. 1667 T. Flatman in S. Woodford Paraphr. Psalms David sig. d3v These did his deathless Poems slay. 1720 E. Cobden Poem on Death of Addison 10 A Power Divine Had issu'd from some deathless Poet's Shrine. 1731 I. Thompson Coll. Poems 78 To future Times shall she thy Fame prolong, In deathless Verse, if Deathless be my Song. 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. clviii Wide o'er the world shall ever sound the might, The raptured music of each deathless line. 1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. i. 86 A Warrior, who had fought and conquered on the deathless plains of Waterloo. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 449 From an early stage of the reign of Cnut we see a high and special place among the great men of the realm filled by the deathless name of Godwine the son of Wulfnoth. 1886 Sporting Times 24 Apr. 2/1 The splendid story which Sir Walter Scott has told in his deathless prose. 1917 Crisis Jan. 125/1 It was here in Richmond that Patrick Henry delivered his deathless speech. 1942 Billboard 18 Apr. 45/3 As this deathless prose is being put onto copy paper, thence by plane to..the roaring presses, [etc.]. 1981 ‘Q. Crisp’ How to become Virgin v. 62 I had imagined that my jumbled speech would be translated into deathless prose. 2002 Los Angeles Mag. Aug. 38/2 Mae West, author of the deathless phrase ‘I used to be Snow White, but I drifted’. < as lemmas |
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