Read full poem →Means to give one's soul to gain
Life's quintessence. Even pain
Pricks to livelier living, then
Dictionary Entry
A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.
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Poetry examples for “quintessence”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness;
Read full poem →Laws of form, and metre just,
Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams,
What subsisteth, and what seems.
Read full poem →I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence
of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid.
Read full poem →Nor in hid wayes do guide philosophic ;
Looke at my hands for no such quintessence ;
But know that 1 in pure simplicitie