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Icarian   Listen
adjective
Icarian  adj.  Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... intimacy with many of the leading characters and the secret springs of that remarkable period,—his clear and solid judgment, always so except when he was following the Daedalus Pindar upon waxen Icarian wings, or competing with Dr Donne in the number of conceits which he could stuff, like cloves, into his subject-matter,—and the bewitching ease and elegance of his prose style, would have combined to render it an important contribution to English history, and a worthy monument ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan



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