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单词 lamp of beauty
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lamp of beauty
3. figurative. A source or centre of light, spiritual or intellectual. Also, lamp of beauty, lamp of joy, lamp of life, etc.‘Seven lamps’ are frequently mentioned in Biblical passages either as part of the Temple furniture or in symbolic references (e.g. Exodus xxv. 37, Zechariah iv. 2, Revelation iv. 5); hence allusive uses as in quots. 1582, 1849.
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c1500 Makculloch MS in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) 24 O lamp lemand befoir þe trwne dewyne,..O mater Ihesu, [salue maria]!
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 162 Go, hart, vnto the lampe of lycht,..Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour.
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 434 (margin) Cambridge and Oxenford the twoe lampes of England, for learning, knowledge, etc.
1582 T. Bentley (title) The Monument of Matrons; conteining seven severall Lamps of Virginity.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 64 Blyth Aberdeane,..The lamp of bewtie, bountie and blythnes.
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 45 in Sylua Syluarum Wee haue Three that take care..to Direct New Experiments, of a Higher Light,..These wee call Lamps.
1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §lxxi Blessed be God that hath set vp so many cleare Lamps in his Church.
1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 318 Hold out a Lamp of goodly profession to the eie of the world.
1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 86 This Lamp is called by the Name of Good Conscience.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 248 The great Lamp of Instruction, the Spirit of God.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 5 Reason, that Heav'n-lighted Lamp in Man.
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 556 Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xi. 143 Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore.
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 288 Quesnay's lamp..kindled the lamp of Adam Smith.
1849 J. Ruskin (title) The seven lamps of architecture.
1878 J. P. Hopps Life Jesus ii. 11 Whoever despaired of the world, he, at least, kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul.
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