ICHOR • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Ichor

"Ichor" Quotes from Famous Books

... that it was the Wartons who introduced into the discussion of English poetry the principle of Romanticism. To use a metaphor of which both of them would have approved, that principle was to them like the mystical bowl of ichor, the ampolla, which Astolpho was expected to bring down from heaven in the Orlando Furioso. If I have given you an exaggerated idea of the extent to which they foresaw the momentous change in English literature, I am to blame. No doubt by extracting ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... several elements; slowly purifying each by the patient withdrawal of it from the anarchy of the mass in which it was mingled. Contracted by increasing drought, till it must shatter into fragments, it infuses continually a finer ichor into the opening veins, and finds in its weakness the first rudiments of a perfect strength. Rent at last, rock from rock, nay, atom from atom, and tormented in lambent fire, it knits, through the fusion, the fibers of a perennial endurance; and, during countless subsequent centuries, declining, ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... cheek. Gaga was checked for an instant in his progress. His smile broadened, his head was thrown back. At that moment he looked almost like a determined man, so vividly did Sally's nod cause a new ichor of confidence to run ...

— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... for the wormwood shrub. And ho! for the sea-green liquor That softens the brain to sillybub And turns the blood to ichor! ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II. No. 38, Saturday, December 17, 1870. • Various

... soul lights up, Inspirations flicker; Nectar lifts the soul on high With its heavenly ichor: To my lips a sounder taste Hath the tavern's liquor Than the wine a village ...

— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various