单词 | to seek expression |
释义 | > as lemmasto seek expression c. beyond expression, past expression, †within the compass of expression, to seek expression, to find expression. ΚΠ a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) v. i. 466 This is cruelty Beyond expression. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 17 The greatest peace of barbarity within the compas of expression. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 591 The place he found beyond expression bright. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria 384 The unhappy man..who past expression loved. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Adeline in Poems 69 Faintly-smiling Adeline,..beyond expression fair. 1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 218 Some of the fundamental ideas that found expression in the ancient systems of faith and worship. 1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda 44 Born in love's own heaven Was all that sought expression. < as lemmas |
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