Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber...
...Heidelberg University there is a rule on record which was made in 1430, forbidding the practice by the older students of shaving the heads of new students and filling their ears with wax...
...exhibit the ridiculous humours of other people and finally to put them out, themselyes have humours which they continue parading until checked. So it was with Carlo Buffone whose tastes for teasing and good living were both extinguished when Sir Puntarvolo filled up his mouth with hot sealing wax. Mr. Moulton received enthusiastic applause after he had finished, which testified to his success in delighting his audience...