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His poem of profound grief is notably animated by the language of 17-century science and technology: squibs, rays, hydroptic, alchemy, quintessence, limbec, chaoses, elixir.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2012

He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.'

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

He has left it on record in one of his letters that he was a victim at one period of “the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.”

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert