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Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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"When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness...
...your foresight will become a nimble vagrant."
Well, the twits over at ark couldn't (or WOULDN'T) help me. So does anybody here know any historical, literary, or some other arty-type antecedents to the phrase "nimble vagrant"?
As unhinged as he is, I have a hard time believing Gary Busey came up with that beguiling phrase all by his lonesome.
The closest simile in the OCD is from Faust: "You'll never mount the airy steep With all your tripping vagrance."
Now my eye's twitching from squinting for 20 minutes at poorly spelled quotations.
Wmst. N. Gergen -- "Dear Mr. Valenti, I like your cheeks. My home is made of adobe."
Well, the twits over at ark couldn't (or WOULDN'T) help me. So does anybody here know any historical, literary, or some other arty-type antecedents to the phrase "nimble vagrant"?
As unhinged as he is, I have a hard time believing Gary Busey came up with that beguiling phrase all by his lonesome.
The closest simile in the OCD is from Faust: "You'll never mount the airy steep With all your tripping vagrance."
Now my eye's twitching from squinting for 20 minutes at poorly spelled quotations.
Wmst. N. Gergen -- "Dear Mr. Valenti, I like your cheeks. My home is made of adobe."
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" Well, the twits over at ark couldn't (or WOULDN'T) help me. So does ... s rosy cheek, Careless, a little vagrant passed, With artful hand around his neck A slender chain the virgin cast.
- " Well, the twits over at ark couldn't (or WOULDN'T) help me.
- So does ...
- s rosy cheek, Careless, a little vagrant passed, With artful hand around his neck A slender chain the virgin cast.
- rite flea.
- er her snowy bosom strutted: Now on her panting breast he leaps, Now hides between his little head.
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[nq:1]...your foresight will become a nimble vagrant." Well, the twits over at ark couldn't (or WOULDN'T) help me. So does ... airy steep With all your tripping vagrance." Now my eye's twitching from squinting for 20 minutes at poorly spelled quotations.[/nq]
Take a look at one of Samuel Wesley's poems (partially quoted below), which dates back to circa 1724:
FROM THE LATIN As o?er f
Take a look at one of Samuel Wesley's poems (partially quoted below), which dates back to circa 1724:
FROM THE LATIN As o?er f
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[nq:2]...your foresight will become a nimble vagrant." Well, the twits ... twitching from squinting for 20 minutes at poorly spelled quotations.[/nq]
[nq:1]Take a look at one of Samuel Wesley's poems (partially quoted below), which dates back to circa 1724: FROM THE LATIN As o'er fair Cloe's rosy cheek, Careless, a little vagrant passed,[/nq]
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[nq:1]Pleased at his
[nq:1]Take a look at one of Samuel Wesley's poems (partially quoted below), which dates back to circa 1724: FROM THE LATIN As o'er fair Cloe's rosy cheek, Careless, a little vagrant passed,[/nq]
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[nq:1]Pleased at his
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