Stagyrite
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O’Rourke has written about that overlap of literature and philosophy in “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations From Aristotle,” among other works.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2015
Nowhere does the old Stagyrite display a more consummate knowledge of what men are made of, than in his contrasted characters of youth and age.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
He fought the combat syllogistic With so much skill and art eristic, That though you were the learned Stagyrite, At once upon the hip he had you right.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Had it been in his power he would have thought of her in the abstract—the stage contiguous to that which he adopted: but the attempt was luckless; the Stagyrite would have faded in it.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
The philosophy of Plato, the power of the Athenian drama, and the learning of the Stagyrite, were a new impulse to literature.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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