Word: fountained
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...Fountain of happiness...
...reads and paints for relaxation, but scorns bridge as "the world's worst way of wasting time." His vast collection of pipes has been assembled all over the world, will almost certainly follow him to Java. He takes his Scotch with water, prefers old-fashioned goose quills to fountain pens. He can still play the bagpipes - with discretion...
...Pure Fountain. It has been said that "when Wordsworth's inferior work has been pruned away, only a half dozen first-rate poems remain. Arnold in his selection found 312 pages of first-rate poetry; Housman finds only 129 pages. Included in his selections are the Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Michael, the best episode from The Prelude, a few narrative poems and a swatch of lyrics, 14 of Wordsworth's grand total of nearly 150 sonnets (some of which Housman considers greater than Milton's). All the Lucy poems are included. From...
...music of Mozart and the music of Wordsworth are very different in expression, but both flow from the same pure fountain...
...studded Peacock Throne his father grimly ordered his enemies murdered or jailed, ruled his "court with a caprice that ranged from slapping ministers in the face to kicking subjects in the crotch. (Once, rumor had it, the young Prince himself felt the royal boot and landed in a palace fountain...