"Extern" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... different foreign nations, they had an immediate striking and picturesque effect, giving scope to the fancy. The surface of society was embossed with hieroglyphics, and poetry existed "in art and compliment extern." The poetry of former times might be directly taken from real life, as our poetry is taken from the poetry of former times. Finally, the face of nature, which was the same glorious object then that it is now, was open to them; and coming first, they gathered her fairest ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... dawned. The rorid earth upon, Old Sol looked down, to do his work siccate, My sneek I raised to greet the ethe sun, And sauntering forth passed out my garden gate. A blithe specht sat on yon declinous tree Bent on delection to its bark extern; A merle anear observed (it seemed to me) The work, in hopes to make owse how ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various |
