单词 | groves of academe |
释义 | > as lemmasgroves of Academe groves of Academe [translating classical Latin silvās Acadēmī in Horace: see the etymology] (literary): a place of studious seclusion; the academic world, viewed as sheltered from the demands of everyday life. ΚΠ 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 241 The Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement.] a1760 I. H. Browne Poems (1768) 105 Bear me some God to groves of Academe! There, let eternal Wisdom be my theme. 1785 Epist. College Friend 12 But Ah! Too soon the dear delusive Dream Fled, with the golden Groves of Academe. 1808 W. Scott in J. Dryden Wks. IV. 348 Dryden was at this time particularly induced to appeal to the taste of the first among the gay world, by the repeated censures which had been launched against him from the groves of Academe. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xviii. 166 Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour among the groves of Academe, Pen now found his way. 1904 C. Headlam Story of Oxf. i. 3 The groves and cloisters of Academe. 1950 C. Fry Venus Observed i. 10 But how I longed As a boy for the groves and grooves of Academe. 1999 M. Frayn Headlong (2000) 267 I'm afraid I'm merely a humble woodsman in the groves of academe. < as lemmas |
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