Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthliest
Literary usage of Earthliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All & None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1896)
"Thus the prince also turneth round what is earthliest of all: that is the gold
of shopkeepers. The God of hosts is not a God of gold bars. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"The Donatist cry, Quid Christianis cum regibus, was the earliest and earthliest
real sectarianism. It gives up Christianity and it gives up the world. ..."
3. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"... which are as grossly self-seeking as the earthliest, and even set it up as a
merit and a sanctification. Keats appears to have been of opinion, ..."
4. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1905)
"Of earthly things This love of theirs ranks as the earthliest. Tis necessary to
man's mode of life ; He could not bear his load of misery But for the sweet ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1823)
"... are some that may praise thy lays; But of all earth's dim vanities, The very
earthliest is praise. Praise ! light and dew of the sweet leaves Around the ..."
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