Chapter III

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

giving or marked by complete attention to

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

having no known name or identity or known source

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

surrounding, or on every side of, something

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

confidently declared to be so

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

plural of “booth” — a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

noisy like the sound of a bee

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

(usually followed by “of”) having capacity or ability

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a timepiece that shows the time of day

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

lacking grace in movement or posture

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

light and humorous drama with a happy ending

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

arousing or provoking laughter

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

plural of “commodity” — articles of commerce

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

inflected form of “cram” — crowd or pack to capacity

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the wife or widow of a czar

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a loud harsh or strident noise

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the act of discovering something

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

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From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

indicating exactness or preciseness

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

plural of “fantasy” — imagination unrestricted by reality

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

plural of “figure” — a diagram or picture illustrating textual material

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

past form of “flash” — gleam or glow intermittently

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

inflected form of “flit” — move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

having or displaying warmth or affection

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

possessive form of “heart” — the locus of feelings and intuitions

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

of comparatively great physical weight or density

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

superlative of “high” — greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

an indirect suggestion

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

characteristic of humanity

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

plural of “image” — an iconic mental representation

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

in truth (often tends to intensify)

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

and nothing more

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness

From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

-ing form of “low” — make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the act that results in something coming to be

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

used to form the superlative

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

plural of “necessity” — the condition of being essential or indispensable

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

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From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

impressive in appearance

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

comparative of “noble” — impressive in appearance

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

something offered (as a proposal or bid)

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

on one occasion

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

and nothing more

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

past form of “overpower” — overcome by superior force

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

by chance

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

everlastingly; for all time

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

light teasing

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a human being

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

plural of “rank” — a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a rational motive for a belief or action

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

plural of “reminiscence” — a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

change to the contrary

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a reason for wanting something done

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

inflected form of “sink” — fall or descend to a lower place or level

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

not in physical motion

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

comparative of “still” — not in physical motion

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

plural of “stream” — a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

with strength or in a strong manner

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

in an affectionate or loving manner (“sweet” is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of “sweetly”)

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

inflected form of “take” — carry out

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

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From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.

characterized by variety

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

precisely as stated

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

From this reading Then flashed upon the surprised Victor a new face and a new relation; for he was exactly like Emanuel.

possessive form of “victor” — a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

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From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading A fair, with its human streams running up and down,--with its flitting of figures to and fro, as in a clock with images,--with its perpetually buzzing air, in which fiddle-squeak and human janglings and lowing of cattle conspire in one deafening roar,--and with the booths, crammed with commodities, offering a mosaic picture of our little life, patched up of varied necessities.... a village-fair, by all these reminiscences of the great, frosty _New-Year's fair_ of Life, made Victor's noble bosom at once heavy and full; he sank away, sweetly overpowered, into the din, and the human ranks around him absorbed his soul into its stiller fantasies.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

past form of “witness” — be a witness to

From this reading The Chamberlain and his _associé_ took this for clumsy persiflage; the latter--perhaps for the sake of displeasing Clotilda, to the advantage of his heart's czarina, armed with false bosom and false rump--went on unshamed with his, and asserted that the best method of making the aforenamed anonymous person sad was a very merry one, a comedy;--to be sure, a farce moved him still more strongly, as he himself witnessed in him at Goethe's moral puppet-play or fair.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading That was the reason why Goethe's Hogarthian _tail-piece_ of a village-fair (like Shakespeare) always left him melancholy; just as he was most fond, indeed, of finding in the low-comic the highest earnest (women are capable only of a reverse discovery), and a comic book, without any nobler trait or hint (e. g.

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From this reading Blumauer's Æneid), he could endure as little as La Mettrie's[51] disgustingly laughing face, or the faces on the frontispieces of the Vade Mecum.