单词 | to soar with the lark |
释义 | > as lemmasto soar with the lark P3. Chiefly literary and poetic. In phrases alluding to the soaring flight of the lark, esp. to soar with the lark and variants: to rise to an exalted level; to surpass what is ordinary. ΚΠ 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. E5v Sing sadlie then my Muse..Yet mount thy wings beyond the mornings Larke. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 95 With your Theame, I could O're-mount the Larke . View more context for this quotation 1670 W. Annand Pater Noster To Rdr. If from a teeming word, my fancy be so raised, that with the Lark it soar, may be, higher then my Author attempted, [etc.]. 1859 E. A. Duyckinck in Gifts of Genius 107 His verse is light, airy, flying with the lark to heaven. 1902 Punch 30 Apr. 307/1 My fancies, soaring with the lark, Recurred to common soil. 2007 G. Kirkwood Secrets in Heather (2008) viii. 132 Moments before his spirits had been soaring with the lark. Now they sank like lead. < as lemmas |
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