More unusual verbs
In this morning's post, I tackled the "unusual verbs: To Shakespeare and To Austen. This afternoon, I give you the other two Sara requested: To Wordsworth and To Dickens (a name worthy of being a verb if ever there was one). In selecting quotes from their works, I tried to find quotes that said a little something about the author's life and works. Whether I succeeded in that or no I leave to you.
To Wordsworth (v.): 1) to travel among unknown men in lands beyond the sea; 2) to have one's heart leap up at the sight of rainbows; 3) to scorn not the sonnet; 4) to consider poetry the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; 5) to be surprised by joy, impatient as the wind; 6) to see a crowd of daffodils.
Here are the references for those definitions:
1. I Traveled Among Unknown Men
2. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
3. Scorn Not the Sonnet
4. Introduction to Lyrical Ballads
5. Surprised by Joy
6. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
To Dickens (v.): 1) to fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; 2) to honor Christmas in one's heart and keep it all year round; 3) to do a far far better thing than that which one has ever done before; 4) to be moral and contemplate existence; 5) to ask only to be free, like the butterflies; 6) to take nothing on its looks, but everything on its evidence.
Here are the Dickens novels whence come these definitions, directly or modified:
1. The Old Curiosity Shop
2. A Christmas Carol
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. Martin Chuzzlewit
5. Bleak House
6. Great Expectations
Requests have been made for To Chandler and To Brontë, which will be forthcoming.
*Edited to add: No more requests are being taken. Bradbury will be the last one.
To Wordsworth (v.): 1) to travel among unknown men in lands beyond the sea; 2) to have one's heart leap up at the sight of rainbows; 3) to scorn not the sonnet; 4) to consider poetry the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; 5) to be surprised by joy, impatient as the wind; 6) to see a crowd of daffodils.
Here are the references for those definitions:
1. I Traveled Among Unknown Men
2. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
3. Scorn Not the Sonnet
4. Introduction to Lyrical Ballads
5. Surprised by Joy
6. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
To Dickens (v.): 1) to fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; 2) to honor Christmas in one's heart and keep it all year round; 3) to do a far far better thing than that which one has ever done before; 4) to be moral and contemplate existence; 5) to ask only to be free, like the butterflies; 6) to take nothing on its looks, but everything on its evidence.
Here are the Dickens novels whence come these definitions, directly or modified:
1. The Old Curiosity Shop
2. A Christmas Carol
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. Martin Chuzzlewit
5. Bleak House
6. Great Expectations
Requests have been made for To Chandler and To Brontë, which will be forthcoming.
*Edited to add: No more requests are being taken. Bradbury will be the last one.