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«Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.»

Author: Iris Murdoch (Novelist, Philosopher) | Keywords: maker, nymph, nymphs, The Thrills, thrilling, Two Women

«And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face.»

Author: Walter Scott | Keywords: chisel, chisels, Grecian, lovelier, naiad, nymph, nymphs

«O ruddier than the cherry, / O sweeter than the berry, / O nymph more bright / Than moonshine night, / Like kidlings blithe and merry.»

Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: berries, berry, blithe, moonshine, nymph, nymphs, ruddier, sweeter

«Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.»

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: apologize, clothing, indecorous, nymph, nymphs, Sculptor, specimen, specimens, Venus, womanhood

«SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: accessible, chicks, fatally, gnome, gnomes, immaterial, inhabited, insalubrious, nymph, nymphs, polluted, progeny, respectively, salamander, Salamanders, sewers, sewer gas, sylph, Sylphs

«Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.»

Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Reason | Keywords: absurdity, by nature, nymph, nymphs, slippery, supple, syllogistic, truer, turn out

«Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles»

Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: crank, cranked, Cranks, jest, jollity, nods, nymph, nymphs, quip, Quips, wanton, wile, wiles, wreathe, wreathed, youthful

«The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.»

Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: nymph, nymphs

«Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.»

Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: attendants, contrasted, neatness, nymph, nymphs

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