英语词汇“mute inglorious milton”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. spec. in mute inglorious Milton and variants [alluding to Thomas Gray's use, quot. 1751] , a person whose great innate ability is frustrated by lack of opportunity.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure > through lack of opportunity

mute inglorious Milton1751

1751 T. Gray Elegy xv. 8 Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest.

1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 594/1 No doubt but we have had Homers in embryo, many a ‘mute inglorious Milton’, and many a Tasso, ‘cabined, cribbed and confined’ by oppressive circumstances.

1859 Ladies' Repository Oct. 587/1 We should find many a ‘mute inglorious Milton’, with an eye to detect and a heart to feel whatever is sublime or beautiful.

1883 Authors & Publishers (Galba P. Putnam's Sons) 61 We do not believe..that a careful search through American villages would develop any ‘mute, inglorious Miltons’ rusting away their undeveloped lives.

1922 H. L. Mencken Prejudices (1923) 3rd Ser. iii. 89 A genuine artist..would have thoughts and feelings of his own, and the impulse to give them objective form would be irresistible... There are no mute inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets.

1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. iv. 125 We've got to see that our Miltons don't remain mute and inglorious, but above all that our Hampdens are not left to rot on a village green.

1948 T. S. Eliot Notes Def. Culture vi. 102 The Equality of Opportunity dogma..derives emotional reinforcement from the belief in the mute inglorious Milton. This myth assumes that a great deal of first-rate ability—not merely ability, but genius—is being wasted for lack of education.

1991 R. Brookhiser Way of WASP iii. 34 Conformity's enemies accuse it of muzzling invention, of keeping Miltons mute and inglorious.

单词	mute inglorious milton
释义	> as lemmas mute inglorious Milton 2. spec. in mute inglorious Milton and variants [alluding to Thomas Gray's use, quot. 1751] , a person whose great innate ability is frustrated by lack of opportunity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure > through lack of opportunity mute inglorious Milton1751 1751 T. Gray Elegy xv. 8 Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. 1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 594/1 No doubt but we have had Homers in embryo, many a ‘mute inglorious Milton’, and many a Tasso, ‘cabined, cribbed and confined’ by oppressive circumstances. 1859 Ladies' Repository Oct. 587/1 We should find many a ‘mute inglorious Milton’, with an eye to detect and a heart to feel whatever is sublime or beautiful. 1883 Authors & Publishers (Galba P. Putnam's Sons) 61 We do not believe..that a careful search through American villages would develop any ‘mute, inglorious Miltons’ rusting away their undeveloped lives. 1922 H. L. Mencken Prejudices (1923) 3rd Ser. iii. 89 A genuine artist..would have thoughts and feelings of his own, and the impulse to give them objective form would be irresistible... There are no mute inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. iv. 125 We've got to see that our Miltons don't remain mute and inglorious, but above all that our Hampdens are not left to rot on a village green. 1948 T. S. Eliot Notes Def. Culture vi. 102 The Equality of Opportunity dogma..derives emotional reinforcement from the belief in the mute inglorious Milton. This myth assumes that a great deal of first-rate ability—not merely ability, but genius—is being wasted for lack of education. 1991 R. Brookhiser Way of WASP iii. 34 Conformity's enemies accuse it of muzzling invention, of keeping Miltons mute and inglorious. extracted from Miltonn.¹ < as lemmas
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