| 单词 | the glimpses of the moon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe glimpses of the moon a. A momentary shining, a flash. literal and figurative. Now somewhat archaic and with mixture of sense 3 the glimpses of the moon (Shakespeare): the earth by night; often quoted in wider sense, sublunary scenes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker blenka1400 blushc1400 gleamc1440 glance?a1513 glinta1542 glish1570 glimpse1603 glimmera1616 glimble1658 blink1717 glent1728 shimmer1821 glisk1824 flicker1849 glist1864 styme1888 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 34 What may this meane, That thou..Reuissets thus the glimses of the Moone. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 33 His staring eyes did glowe..their glimpse did showe Like Cockatrices eyes. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 6 in Poems No dear glimpse of the Suns lovely face, Strikes through the Solid darkness of the place. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 181 They that held the Stars of heaven were but rayes and flashing glimpses of the Empyreall light, through holes and perforations of the upper heaven. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 214 One glimpse of Glory to my Issue give. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 187 A glimpse of the moon showed the dark and huge tower. 1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 886/2 English Crackenthorpius..though buried for two centuries, will revisit the glimpses of the moon. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek i. 1 There had been glimpses of starlight in the intervals of the shifting spring storms. 1844 J. G. Whittier Bridal of Pennacook 62 Sweet human faces, white clouds of the noon, Slant starlight glimpses through the dewy leaves. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Concl. 173 We climb'd The slope to Vivian-place, and turning saw..; The shimmering glimpses of a stream. < as lemmas |
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