Word: erosion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mr. Santayana in a sonnet calls for a higher love, and embodies the Socratic eros. The expression is good and the lines are often graceful.
I accept your most kind invitation with whole-souled ecstasy. I fear not a little, however, for my reputation as a whist-player, in case you and I are partners. For with eRos opposite me I shall be in imminent danger of throwing away hearts and diamonds at every trick...
That she, too, is imbued with Eros' fire?