"Amativeness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been edited and sifted, with remarkable delicacy and judgment, by Professor Grierson. It is now, therefore, as easy as it can be expected ever to be to follow the career of this extraordinary man, with all its cold and hot fits, its rage of lyrical amativeness, its Roman passion, and the high and clouded austerity of its final Anglicanism. Donne is one of the most fascinating, in some ways one of the most inscrutable, figures in our literature, and we may contemplate ...
— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse
... The amativeness of the dove has lent much to the figurative language of that second golden age, that other Eden where love is over all. Shenstone, in ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain |
