Stagyrite
Americannoun
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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
After all, the reading men did best, though we did not think so then, when we saw them creeping into morning chapel jaded and heavy-eyed, after a debauch over Herodotus or the Stagyrite.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
No sacred Maro glitters on his shelf, He wants the mighty Stagyrite himself.
From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Harte, Walter
It was under precisely such a sun as this, in a warm, dry atmosphere, on a nearly treeless soil, that the Stagyrite did all the thinking of sixty generations.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
He hems; and cries, with an important air, "If yonder clouds withdraw it will be fair:" Then quotes the Stagyrite, to prove it true; And adds, "The learn'd delight in something new."
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
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