Rowley '-- issued in thick succession from this wonderful, and, to use the Shakspearean word in a twofold sense,' forgetive 'brain. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
"It ascends me into the brain ... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.". From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Part of King Henry IV] Reference
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. From Wordnik.com. [The second part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference
O quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, "quick, forgetive, apprehensive," beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
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