"Emasculate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was an artist in that time; he was but one of the many who, in every department, sought, in study and in science, the secrets of the wise or the beautiful. Pericles and Phidias were in their several paths of fame what Sophocles was in his. But it was not the art of an emasculate or effeminate period—it grew out of the example of a previous generation of men astonishingly great. It was art still fresh from the wells of nature. Art with a vast field yet unexplored, and in all its youthful vigour ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... and from affairs of state abstain; Women emasculate a monarch's reign; And murmuring crowds, who see them shine with gold, That pomp, as their own ravished ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... toll in this sort of the 'risqu' situations incidental to their plots, the dressing up of men as women in the former, and of women as men in the latter. Needless to say, no faithful translator will emasculate his author by expurgation, and the reader will here find Aristophanes' Comedies as Aristophanes wrote them, not as Mrs. Grundy might wish him ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al |
