| 单词 | iron sleep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron sleep 7. Chiefly poetic. Designating an extremely deep sleep, esp. that of death. Chiefly in iron sleep, iron slumber. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of deathOE homeOE restOE sleepOE powderc1300 corruptiona1340 gravec1380 darkness1535 silence1535 tomb1559 iron sleep1573 another country1597 iron slumber1604 deadness1607 deadlihead1612 deadlihood1659 nothingness1813 unlivingness1914 post-mortemity1922 1573 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte ii. sig. Diiv Homer doth call it brasen slepe. Virgil yron slepe [L. somnum..ferreum], either of which importeth forgetfulnes of al thinges. 1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. F Detraction and Obliuion throw off their iron slumber. 1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis ii. 4 An Iron Slumber sate on his Majestick Eyes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 An Iron Slumber shuts my swimming Eyes [L. conditque natantia lumina somnus.] . View more context for this quotation 1724 G. Jeffreys Edwin v. i. 60 Let Caduan, starting from his iron Sleep, Howl in my Ears, Usurper, Parricide; And then I will believe. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iii. 62 The touch divine his iron slumber broke. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. v. 348 His face was still locked, as in a vice, with that iron sleep. 1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 50 So lived I and lived not..with creatures of dreams, In a long iron sleep. 1910 Forum Mar. 291 The clamors of the centuries can disturb all quiets but one—the quiet of the dead. Yet a voice is coming that shall break this iron repose. 1920 A. Noyes Elfin Artist 131 After all the loving, with lips and eyes a-light, Comes the iron slumber, and the endless night. 2009 M. Wickert tr. T. Tasso Liberation of Jerusalem iii. 51 He falls; his eyes, their lids scarce open, keep a gaze of stern repose and iron sleep. < as lemmas |
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