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Citations:delectable

English citations of delectable

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  • ca 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Richard the second, London: Andrew Wise, published 1597, [act 2, scene 3], page not numbered:
    […] / These high wild hils and rough vneuen waies, / Drawes out our miles and makes them wearisome, / And yet your faire discourse hath beene as sugar, / Making the hard way sweete and delectable, / […]
  • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44:9:
    They that make a grauen image are all of them vanitie, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their owne witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
  • 1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, book 5, London: William Stansbye, verse 72, page 399:
    We are of our owne accord apt enough to giue intertainement to things delectable, but patiently to lacke what flesh and bloud doth desire, and by vertue to forbeare what by nature we couet this, no man attaineth vnto, but with labour and long practice.
  • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 537–9:
    […] / He brought thee into this delicious Grove, / This Garden, planted with the Trees of God, / Delectable both to behold and taste ; / […]
  • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 64:
    When the Morning was up, they had him to the top of the House, [Isa. 33:16,17] and bid him look south, so he did; and behold at a great distance he saw a most pleasant Mountainous Countrey, beautified with Woods, Vinyards, Fruits of all sorts, Flowers also; Springs and Fountains, very delectable to behold.
  • 1849, Edwin Percy Whipple, “Romance of Rascality”, in Essays and Reviews, volume 2, New York: Appleton, page 108:
    Their most resounding declamation thundered against the enormity of allowing the rich precedence in catching at the delectable baits of sin, and not giving the poor man an opportunity of having Satan's hook fast fixed in his own bleeding gills.
  • 1853, “Crossing the Isthmus of Panama”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, volume 1 (new series), number 22, New York: McElrath & Lord, page 523:
    In this delectable abode, situated in the midst of a dismal forest, rising from a reeking morass, about forty drenched mortals congregated.
  • 1875, Henry James, Jr., “A Chain of Cities”, in Transatlantic Sketches, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 213:
    Winter, at least, seemed to me to have put something into these mediaeval cities which the May sun had melted away—a certain delectable depth of local color, an excess of duskiness and decay.
  • 1897, “Preface”, in John Milton, edited by John Phelps Fruit, Lycidas, Boston: Ginn, page v:
    There is no surer way of making mental parasites than that of having everything served up in delectable notes.
  • 1898, William Henry Denham Rouse, transl., De rerum natura [On the Nature of Things] (Loeb Classical Library)‎[1], 3rd edition, London: W. Heinemann, translation of original by Titus Lucretius Carus, published 1924, [II, line 1], page 85:
    Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive what ills you are free from yourself is pleasant.
  • 2000 September 28, “The Bee's Knees”, in The Economist, retrieved 10 May 2019:
    And bees are fickle. Although they can be trained to feed on a particular crop, if they find a sweeter, more delectable flower nearby they will be tempted away to pastures new—and your fruit may suffer.
  • 2003 July 24, “The Whey of Life”, in The Economist, retrieved 10 May 2019:
    That criminally delectable cheese is said to be the invention of a milkmaid named Marie Harel who lived in the Normandy village of Camembert.
  • 2005 September 29, “Revelation Without Reflection”, in The Economist, retrieved 10 May 2019:
    With all these ingredients, the diaries should make a most delectable feast, every bit as good in fact as those that are described on almost every page. Yet they do not.
  • 2014 July 31, Lucy Farmer, “Why Cupcakes Can't Be Beaten”, in 1843, retrieved 10 May 2019:
    Doughnuts always seem delectable, but in reality they are messy rings of grease and will never lose their Homer Simpson connotations.

Middle English citations of delectable

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