An Exaltation of LarksViking, 1991 - Всего страниц: 324 An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards," a "parliament of owls," an "ostentation of peacocks," a "smack of jellyfish," and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a "slouch of models," a "shrivel of critics," an "unction of undertakers," a "blur of Impressionists," a "score of bachelors," and a "pocket of quarterbacks." This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings. |
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ANGELS beasts of venery BEVY Book of St C. E. Hare chase Conan Doyle contemporary corruption Corueseris corveser COWARDICE OF CURS Dame Juliana derive Donald Adams earlier note edition Egerton Manuscript Eliot encounter England Eric Partridge EXALTATION OF LARKS fair sir fhall Field Sports fifteenth century FLIGHT forest four beasts GAGGLE OF GEESE group term herd HOST hunting terms huntsman introduction James Lipton Knight of Duplin Language of Field Latin list that follows literary Lord Berners meaning meant Middle English Nigel Norman French obviously Old French old knight original Partridge passel poet poetic poetry previous note PRIDE OF LIONS printed prioress proper term raff rascal redingote refer riffraff SCHOOL OF FISH schoolmaster printer sense six families SKULK OF FOXES social terms speech swine T. S. Eliot terms of venery trynket UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS variant spelling venereal game venereal terms William Caxton Woolmer Woolmer Forest word